Title 20

PART 220

Part 220 - Determining Disability

PART 220 - DETERMINING DISABILITY Authority:45 U.S.C. 231a; 45 U.S.C. 231f. Source:56 FR 12980, Mar. 28, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

20:1.0.2.8.16.1SUBPART A
Subpart A - General
20:1.0.2.8.16.1.155.1SECTION 220.1
   220.1 Introduction of part.
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   220.2 The basis for the Board's disability decision.
20:1.0.2.8.16.1.155.3SECTION 220.3
   220.3 Determinations by other organizations and agencies.
20:1.0.2.8.16.2SUBPART B
Subpart B - General Definitions of Terms Used in This Part
20:1.0.2.8.16.2.155.1SECTION 220.5
   220.5 Definitions as used in this part.
20:1.0.2.8.16.3SUBPART C
Subpart C - Disability Under the Railroad Retirement Act for Work in an Employee's Regular Railroad Occupation
20:1.0.2.8.16.3.155.1SECTION 220.10
   220.10 Disability for work in an employee's regular railroad occupation.
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   220.11 Definitions as used in this subpart.
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   220.12 Evidence considered.
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   220.13 Establishment of permanent disability for work in regular railroad occupation.
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   220.14 Weighing of evidence.
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   220.15 Effects of work on occupational disability.
20:1.0.2.8.16.3.155.7SECTION 220.16
   220.16 Responsibility to notify the Board of events which affect disability.
20:1.0.2.8.16.3.155.8SECTION 220.17
   220.17 Recovery from disability for work in the regular occupation.
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   220.18 The reentitlement period.
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   220.19 Payment of the disability annuity during the trial work period and the reentitlement period.
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   220.20 Notice that an annuitant is no longer disabled.
20:1.0.2.8.16.3.155.12SECTION 220.21
   220.21 Initial evaluation of a previous occupational disability.
20:1.0.2.8.16.4SUBPART D
Subpart D - Disability Under the Railroad Retirement Act for Any Regular Employment
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   220.25 General.
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   220.26 Disability for any regular employment, defined.
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   220.27 What is needed to show an impairment.
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   220.28 How long the impairment must last.
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   220.29 Work that is considered substantial gainful activity.
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   220.30 Special period required for eligibility of widow(er)s.
20:1.0.2.8.16.5SUBPART E
Subpart E - Disability Determinations Governed by the Regulations of the Social Security Administration
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   220.35 Introduction.
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   220.36 Period of disability.
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   220.37 When a child's disability determination is governed by the regulations of the Social Security Administration.
20:1.0.2.8.16.5.155.4SECTION 220.38
   220.38 When a widow(er)'s disability determination is governed by the regulations of the Social Security Administration.
20:1.0.2.8.16.5.155.5SECTION 220.39
   220.39 Disability determination for a surviving divorced spouse or remarried widow(er).
20:1.0.2.8.16.6SUBPART F
Subpart F - Evidence of Disability
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   220.45 Providing evidence of disability.
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   220.46 Medical evidence.
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   220.47 Purchase of existing medical evidence.
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   220.48 If the claimant fails to submit medical or other evidence.
20:1.0.2.8.16.7SUBPART G
Subpart G - Consultative Examinations
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   220.50 Consultative examinations at the Board's expense.
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   220.51 Notice of the examination.
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   220.52 Failure to appear at a consultative examination.
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   220.53 When the Board will purchase a consultative examination and how it will be used.
20:1.0.2.8.16.7.155.5SECTION 220.54
   220.54 When the Board will not purchase a consultative examination.
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   220.55 Purchase of consultative examinations at the reconsideration level.
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   220.56 Securing medical evidence at the hearings officer hearing level.
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   220.57 Types of purchased examinations and selection of sources.
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   220.58 Objections to the designated physician or psychologist.
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   220.59 Requesting examination by a specific physician, psychologist or institution - hearings officer hearing level.
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   220.60 Diagnostic surgical procedures.
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   220.61 Informing the examining physician or psychologist of examination scheduling, report content and signature requirements.
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   220.62 Reviewing reports of consultative examinations.
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   220.63 Conflict of interest.
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   220.64 Program integrity.
20:1.0.2.8.16.8SUBPART H
Subpart H - Evaluation of Disability
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   220.100 Evaluation of disability for any regular employment.
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   220.101 Evaluation of mental impairments.
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   220.102 Non-severe impairment(s), defined.
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   220.103 Two or more unrelated impairments - initial claims.
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   220.104 Multiple impairments.
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   220.105 Initial evaluation of a previous disability.
20:1.0.2.8.16.9SUBPART I
Subpart I - Medical Considerations
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   220.110 Medically disabled.
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   220.111 [Reserved]
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   220.112 Conclusions by physicians concerning the claimant's disability.
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   220.113 Symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings.
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   220.114 Evaluation of symptoms, including pain.
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   220.115 Need to follow prescribed treatment.
20:1.0.2.8.16.10SUBPART J
Subpart J - Residual Functional Capacity
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   220.120 The claimant's residual functional capacity.
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   220.121 Responsibility for assessing and determining residual functional capacity.
20:1.0.2.8.16.11SUBPART K
Subpart K - Vocational Considerations
20:1.0.2.8.16.11.155.1SECTION 220.125
   220.125 When vocational background is considered.
20:1.0.2.8.16.11.155.2SECTION 220.126
   220.126 Relationship of ability to do work and residual functional capacity.
20:1.0.2.8.16.11.155.3SECTION 220.127
   220.127 When the only work experience is arduous unskilled physical labor.
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   220.128 Age as a vocational factor.
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   220.129 Education as a vocational factor.
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   220.130 Work experience as a vocational factor.
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   220.131 Work which exists in the national economy.
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   220.132 Physical exertion requirements.
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   220.133 Skill requirements.
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   220.134 Medical-vocational guidelines in appendix 2 of this part.
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   220.135 Exertional and nonexertional limitations.
20:1.0.2.8.16.12SUBPART L
Subpart L - Substantial Gainful Activity
20:1.0.2.8.16.12.155.1SECTION 220.140
   220.140 General.
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   220.141 Substantial gainful activity, defined.
20:1.0.2.8.16.12.155.3SECTION 220.142
   220.142 General information about work activity.
20:1.0.2.8.16.12.155.4SECTION 220.143
   220.143 Evaluation guides for an employed claimant.
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   220.144 Evaluation guides for a self-employed claimant.
20:1.0.2.8.16.12.155.6SECTION 220.145
   220.145 Impairment-related work expenses.
20:1.0.2.8.16.13SUBPART M
Subpart M - Disability Annuity Earnings Restrictions
20:1.0.2.8.16.13.155.1SECTION 220.160
   220.160 How work for a railroad employer affects a disability annuity.
20:1.0.2.8.16.13.155.2SECTION 220.161
   220.161 How work affects an employee disability annuity.
20:1.0.2.8.16.13.155.3SECTION 220.162
   220.162 Earnings report.
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   220.163 Employee penalty deductions.
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   220.164 Employee end-of-year adjustment.
20:1.0.2.8.16.14SUBPART N
Subpart N - Trial Work Period and Reentitlement Period for Annuitants Disabled for Any Regular Employment
20:1.0.2.8.16.14.155.1SECTION 220.170
   220.170 The trial work period.
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   220.171 The reentitlement period.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15SUBPART O
Subpart O - Continuing or Stopping Disability Due to Substantial Gainful Activity or Medical Improvement
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.1SECTION 220.175
   220.175 Responsibility to notify the Board of events which affect disability.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.2SECTION 220.176
   220.176 When disability continues or ends.
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   220.177 Terms and definitions.
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   220.178 Determining medical improvement and its relationship to the annuitant's ability to do work.
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   220.179 Exceptions to medical improvement.
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   220.180 Determining continuation or cessation of disability.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.7SECTION 220.181
   220.181 The month in which the Board will find that the annuitant is no longer disabled.
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   220.182 Before a disability annuity is stopped.
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   220.183 Notice that the annuitant is not disabled.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.10SECTION 220.184
   220.184 If the annuitant becomes disabled by another impairment(s).
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.11SECTION 220.185
   220.185 The Board may conduct a review to find out whether the annuitant continues to be disabled.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.12SECTION 220.186
   220.186 When and how often the Board will conduct a continuing disability review.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.13SECTION 220.187
   220.187 If the annuitant's medical recovery was expected and the annuitant returned to work.
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.14.1APPENDIX
   Appendix 1 to Part 220 [Reserved]
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.14.2APPENDIX
   Appendix 2 to Part 220 - Medical-Vocational Guidelines
20:1.0.2.8.16.15.155.14.3APPENDIX
   Appendix 3 to Part 220 - Railroad Retirement Board Occupational Disability Standards