Subpart A - General

§ 220.1 - Introduction of part.

§ 220.2 - The basis for the Board's disability decision.

§ 220.3 - Determinations by other organizations and agencies.

Subpart B - General Definitions of Terms Used in This Part

§ 220.5 - Definitions as used in this part.

Subpart C - Disability Under the Railroad Retirement Act for Work in an Employee's Regular Railroad Occupation

§ 220.10 - Disability for work in an employee's regular railroad occupation.

§ 220.11 - Definitions as used in this subpart.

§ 220.12 - Evidence considered.

§ 220.13 - Establishment of permanent disability for work in regular railroad occupation.

§ 220.14 - Weighing of evidence.

§ 220.15 - Effects of work on occupational disability.

§ 220.16 - Responsibility to notify the Board of events which affect disability.

§ 220.17 - Recovery from disability for work in the regular occupation.

§ 220.18 - The reentitlement period.

§ 220.19 - Payment of the disability annuity during the trial work period and the reentitlement period.

§ 220.20 - Notice that an annuitant is no longer disabled.

§ 220.21 - Initial evaluation of a previous occupational disability.

Subpart D - Disability Under the Railroad Retirement Act for Any Regular Employment

§ 220.25 - General.

§ 220.26 - Disability for any regular employment, defined.

§ 220.27 - What is needed to show an impairment.

§ 220.28 - How long the impairment must last.

§ 220.29 - Work that is considered substantial gainful activity.

§ 220.30 - Special period required for eligibility of widow(er)s.

Subpart E - Disability Determinations Governed by the Regulations of the Social Security Administration

§ 220.35 - Introduction.

§ 220.36 - Period of disability.

§ 220.37 - When a child's disability determination is governed by the regulations of the Social Security Administration.

§ 220.38 - When a widow(er)'s disability determination is governed by the regulations of the Social Security Administration.

§ 220.39 - Disability determination for a surviving divorced spouse or remarried widow(er).

Subpart F - Evidence of Disability

§ 220.45 - Providing evidence of disability.

§ 220.46 - Medical evidence.

§ 220.47 - Purchase of existing medical evidence.

§ 220.48 - If the claimant fails to submit medical or other evidence.

Subpart G - Consultative Examinations

§ 220.50 - Consultative examinations at the Board's expense.

§ 220.51 - Notice of the examination.

§ 220.52 - Failure to appear at a consultative examination.

§ 220.53 - When the Board will purchase a consultative examination and how it will be used.

§ 220.54 - When the Board will not purchase a consultative examination.

§ 220.55 - Purchase of consultative examinations at the reconsideration level.

§ 220.56 - Securing medical evidence at the hearings officer hearing level.

§ 220.57 - Types of purchased examinations and selection of sources.

§ 220.58 - Objections to the designated physician or psychologist.

§ 220.59 - Requesting examination by a specific physician, psychologist or institution - hearings officer hearing level.

§ 220.60 - Diagnostic surgical procedures.

§ 220.61 - Informing the examining physician or psychologist of examination scheduling, report content and signature requirements.

§ 220.62 - Reviewing reports of consultative examinations.

§ 220.63 - Conflict of interest.

§ 220.64 - Program integrity.

Subpart H - Evaluation of Disability

§ 220.100 - Evaluation of disability for any regular employment.

§ 220.101 - Evaluation of mental impairments.

§ 220.102 - Non-severe impairment(s), defined.

§ 220.103 - Two or more unrelated impairments - initial claims.

§ 220.104 - Multiple impairments.

§ 220.105 - Initial evaluation of a previous disability.

Subpart I - Medical Considerations

§ 220.110 - Medically disabled.

§ 220.111 - [Reserved]

§ 220.112 - Conclusions by physicians concerning the claimant's disability.

§ 220.113 - Symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings.

§ 220.114 - Evaluation of symptoms, including pain.

§ 220.115 - Need to follow prescribed treatment.

Subpart J - Residual Functional Capacity

§ 220.120 - The claimant's residual functional capacity.

§ 220.121 - Responsibility for assessing and determining residual functional capacity.

Subpart K - Vocational Considerations

§ 220.125 - When vocational background is considered.

§ 220.126 - Relationship of ability to do work and residual functional capacity.

§ 220.127 - When the only work experience is arduous unskilled physical labor.

§ 220.128 - Age as a vocational factor.

§ 220.129 - Education as a vocational factor.

§ 220.130 - Work experience as a vocational factor.

§ 220.131 - Work which exists in the national economy.

§ 220.132 - Physical exertion requirements.

§ 220.133 - Skill requirements.

§ 220.134 - Medical-vocational guidelines in appendix 2 of this part.

§ 220.135 - Exertional and nonexertional limitations.

Subpart L - Substantial Gainful Activity

§ 220.140 - General.

§ 220.141 - Substantial gainful activity, defined.

§ 220.142 - General information about work activity.

§ 220.143 - Evaluation guides for an employed claimant.

§ 220.144 - Evaluation guides for a self-employed claimant.

§ 220.145 - Impairment-related work expenses.

Subpart M - Disability Annuity Earnings Restrictions

§ 220.160 - How work for a railroad employer affects a disability annuity.

§ 220.161 - How work affects an employee disability annuity.

§ 220.162 - Earnings report.

§ 220.163 - Employee penalty deductions.

§ 220.164 - Employee end-of-year adjustment.

Subpart N - Trial Work Period and Reentitlement Period for Annuitants Disabled for Any Regular Employment

§ 220.170 - The trial work period.

§ 220.171 - The reentitlement period.

Subpart O - Continuing or Stopping Disability Due to Substantial Gainful Activity or Medical Improvement

§ 220.175 - Responsibility to notify the Board of events which affect disability.

§ 220.176 - When disability continues or ends.

§ 220.177 - Terms and definitions.

§ 220.178 - Determining medical improvement and its relationship to the annuitant's ability to do work.

§ 220.179 - Exceptions to medical improvement.

§ 220.180 - Determining continuation or cessation of disability.

§ 220.181 - The month in which the Board will find that the annuitant is no longer disabled.

§ 220.182 - Before a disability annuity is stopped.

§ 220.183 - Notice that the annuitant is not disabled.

§ 220.184 - If the annuitant becomes disabled by another impairment(s).

§ 220.185 - The Board may conduct a review to find out whether the annuitant continues to be disabled.

§ 220.186 - When and how often the Board will conduct a continuing disability review.

§ 220.187 - If the annuitant's medical recovery was expected and the annuitant returned to work.

Appendix 1 - Listing of Impairments

Appendix 1 to Part 220

Appendix 2 to Part 220 - Medical-Vocational Guidelines

Appendix 3 to Part 220 - —Railroad Retirement Board Occupational Disability Standards

Appendix 1 to Part 220 - [Reserved]