[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR220.1]

[Page 261-262]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 220_DETERMINING DISABILITY--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  220.1  Introduction of part.


    (a) This part explains how disability determinations are made by the 
Railroad Retirement Board. In some determinations of disability 
entitlement, as described below, the Board makes the decision of 
disability under the Railroad Retirement Act based on the regulations 
set out in this part. However, in certain other determinations of 
disability entitlement (as also described below) the Board has the 
authority to decide whether the claimant is disabled as that term is 
defined in the Social Security Act and the regulations of the Social 
Security Administration.
    (b) In order for a claimant to become entitled to a railroad 
retirement annuity based on disability for his or her regular railroad 
occupation, or to become entitled to a railroad retirement annuity based 
on disability for any regular employment as an employee, widow(er), or 
child, he or she must be disabled as those terms are defined in the 
Railroad Retirement Act. In order

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for a claimant to become entitled to a period of disability, to early 
Medicare coverage based on disability, to benefits under the social 
security overall minimum, or to a disability annuity as a surviving 
divorced spouse or remarried widow(er), the claimant must be found 
disabled as that term is defined in the Social Security Act.