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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: May 6, 2024) |
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Title 20 - Employees' Benefits |
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Chapter II - Railroad Retirement Board |
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SubChapter B - Regulations Under the Railroad Retirement Act |
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Part 220 - Determining Disability |
| 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] |