20 CFR § 234.2 - Definitions.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s234.2"
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title: "20 CFR § 234.2 - Definitions."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "234.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT"
part_number: "234"
part_name: "LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "45 U.S.C. 231f."
regulatory_source: "51 FR 3036, Jan. 23, 1986, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "234"
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# 234.2 Definitions.

As used in this part:

*Applicant* means the person who signs an application for an annuity or lump-sum for himself, herself or for some other person.

*Apply* means to sign a form or statement that the Board accepts as an application.

*Burial expenses* means expenses in connection with the actual burial or other disposition of the remains of the deceased employee.

*Eligible* means a person meets all the requirements for payment of an annuity or a lump-sum, but has not yet applied.

*Employee* means any person who is working or has worked for a railroad employer.

*Entitled* means a person who meets all the requirements for an annuity or a lump-sum, and has applied.

*Equitably entitled person* means the person whose funds were used to pay the burial expenses of a deceased employee.

*Lump-sum* means any non-recurring payment due because of an employee's or beneficiary's death.

*Person* means an individual, partnership, trust estate, association, corporation, government unit, or estate of a deceased individual.

*Reimbursable burial expenses* means that part of the burial expenses not previously reimbursed by another Federal agency.