[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: 20CFR222.56]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 222_FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart F_Child Support and Dependency
 
Sec.  222.56  When a grandchild or stepgrandchild is dependent.

    An employee's grandchild or stepgrandchild, as described in Sec.  
222.36, is considered dependent on the employee if the requirements in 
both paragraphs (a) and (b), or paragraph (c) of this section are met:
    (a) The grandchild or stepgrandchild was living with the employee 
before

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the grandchild or stepgrandchild attained age 18.
    (b) The grandchild or stepgrandchild is living with the employee in 
the United States and receives at least one-half of his or her support 
from the employee for the year before the month in which--
    (1) The employee could become entitled to an age and service or 
disability annuity under the Social Security Act (treating his or her 
railroad compensation as wages under that Act); or
    (2) The employee dies; or
    (3) The employee becomes entitled to a period of disability that 
lasts until he or she could become entitled to a social security benefit 
as described above or until he or she dies.
    (c) In the case of a grandchild or stepgrandchild born within the 
one-year period referred to in paragraph (b) of this section, at the 
close of such period the child must have been living with and receiving 
at least one-half of his or her support from the employee for 
substantially all of the period that began on the date the grandchild or 
stepgrandchild was born. ``Substantially all'' is defined in Sec.  
222.53.