[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: 20CFR234.15]

[Page 494]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B_Lump-Sum Death Payment
 
Sec.  234.15  When an employee's estate is entitled.

    (a) The employee's estate is considered an equitably entitled person 
if the funds used to pay burial expenses consisted of:
    (1) Money in the employee's single-ownership bank account;
    (2) Money paid directly to the funeral home by the employee before 
death;
    (3) Money paid by the employee under a contract, plan, system or 
general practice where no beneficiary was named to receive the money;
    (4) Money found among the employee's effects;
    (5) Unpaid salary due the employee by the employee's employer;
    (6) Money obtained by selling the employee's real or personal 
property; or
    (7) Money from a trust fund.
    (b) If the employee's estate is the equitably entitled person, the 
Board will pay the LSDP to the legal representative of the employee's 
estate. When no legal representative of the employee's estate has been 
or is expected to be appointed, the Board will pay the LSDP according to 
state statutory procedures applicable when no formal probate or 
administration occurs.