Source: https://www.govregs.com/regulations/expand/title20_chapterII_part216_subpartF_section216.50
Timestamp: 2020-07-09 01:24:05
Document Index: 700988087

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 216', '§ 216', '§ 216', '§ 216', '§ 216', '§ 216', '§ 222']

20 CFR 216.50 - General. § 216.50 - General.
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§ 216.50 - General.
§ 216.52 - Who is eligible for an annuity as a divorced spouse.
§ 216.53 - What is required for payment.
§ 216.54 - Who is an employee's wife or husband.
The Railroad Retirement Act provides annuities for the spouse, and divorced spouse, of an employee who is entitled to an employee annuity. A spouse may receive an annuity based on age, or on having a child of the employee in his or her care. A divorced spouse may only receive an annuity based on age. No spouse or divorced spouse annuity may be paid based upon disability.
To be eligible for a divorced spouse annuity, the employee annuitant must be at least age 62 and the divorced spouse (see § 222.22 of this chapter) must:
(a) Be the divorced wife or husband of an employee;
(b) Stop work for a railroad employer;
(c) Not be entitled to an old-age or disability benefit under the Social Security Act based on a primary insurance amount that is equal to or greater than one-half of the employee's tier I primary insurance amount; and either
(d) Have attained retirement age; or
(e) Have attained age 62 but be under retirement age. The annuity is reduced for each month the spouse is under retirement age at the time the annuity begins.
An eligible spouse or divorced spouse must:
(a) Apply to be entitled to an annuity; and
(b) Give up the right to return to work for a railroad employer.
(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 3220-0016 and 3220-0042)
An employee's wife or husband is an individual who -
(a) Is married to the employee; and
(b) Has been married to the employee for at least one year immediately before the date the spouse applied for annuity;
(c) Is the natural parent of the employee's child;
(d) Was entitled to an annuity as a widow(er), a parent, or a disabled child under this part in the month before he or she married the employee; or
(e) Could have been entitled to a benefit listed in paragraph (d) of this section, if the spouse had applied and been old enough in the month before he or she married the employee.