[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: 20CFR220.18]

[Page 267]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 220_DETERMINING DISABILITY--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart C_Disability Under the Railroad Retirement Act for Work in an 
                 Employee's Regular Railroad Occupation
 
Sec.  220.18  The reentitlement period.

    (a) General. The reentitlement period is an additional period after 
the nine months of trial work during which the annuitant may continue to 
test his or her ability to work if the annuitant has a disabling 
impairment.
    (b) When the reentitlement period begins and ends. The reentitlement 
period begins with the first month following completion of nine months 
of trial work but cannot begin earlier than December 1, 1980. It ends 
with whichever is earlier--
    (1) The month before the first month in which the annuitant's 
impairment(s) no longer exists or is not medically disabling; or
    (2) The last day of the 36th month following the end of the 
annuitant's trial work period.
    (c) When the annuitant is not entitled to a reentitlement period. 
The annuitant is not entitled to a reentitlement period if--
    (1) The annuitant is not entitled to a trial work period; or
    (2) The annuitant's disability ended before the annuitant completed 
nine months of trial work in that period in which he or she was 
disabled.