[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: 20CFR228.20]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 228_COMPUTATION OF SURVIVOR ANNUITIES--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart B_The Tier I Annuity Component
 
Sec.  228.20  Reduction for an employee annuity.

    (a) General. If an individual is entitled to an annuity as a 
survivor, and is also entitled to an employee annuity, then the survivor 
annuity must be reduced by the amount of the employee annuity. However, 
this reduction does not apply (except as provided in paragraph (b) of 
this section) if the survivor or the individual upon whose earnings 
record the survivor annuity is based worked for a railroad employer or 
as an employee representative before January 1, 1975.
    (b) Tier I reduction. If an individual is entitled to an annuity as 
a survivor, then the tier I component of the survivor annuity must be 
reduced by the amount of the tier I component of the employee annuity 
after reduction for age. Where the survivor is entitled to a tier II 
component and either the survivor or the employee had railroad earnings 
before 1975, a portion of this reduction may be restored in the 
computation of the tier II component (see Sec.  228.52 of this part).

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