20 CFR § 261.10 - Increase in future benefits where time period for reopening has expired.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s261.10"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 261.10 - Increase in future benefits where time period for reopening has expired."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "261.10"
section_name: "Increase in future benefits where time period for reopening has expired."
chapter_name: "RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT"
part_number: "261"
part_name: "ADMINISTRATIVE FINALITY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "45 U.S.C. 231f."
regulatory_source: "62 FR 45713, Aug. 29, 1997, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "261"
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# 261.10 Increase in future benefits where time period for reopening has expired.
If, after the time period for reopening under § 261.2(b) of this part has expired, new evidence is furnished showing a different date of birth or new evidence is furnished which would cause a correction in a record of compensation as provided for in part 211 of this chapter and, as a result of the new evidence, increased benefits would be payable, the Board will pay increased benefits, but only for the months following the month the new evidence is received.