20 CFR § 702.604 - Determining the amount of compensation for occupational disease claims which become manifest after retirement.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s702.604"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 702.604 - Determining the amount of compensation for occupational disease claims which become manifest after retirement."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "702.604"
section_name: "Determining the amount of compensation for occupational disease claims which become manifest after retirement."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "LONGSHOREMEN'S AND HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT AND RELATED STATUTES"
part_number: "702"
part_name: "ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURE"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 301, and 8171 33 U.S.C. 901 42 U.S.C. 1651 43 U.S.C. 1333; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834."
regulatory_source: "38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "702"
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# 702.604 Determining the amount of compensation for occupational disease claims which become manifest after retirement.
(a) If the claim is for disability benefits and the time of injury occurs after the employee has retired, compensation shall be 66
2/3 percent of the payrate, as determined under § 702.603, times the disability, as determined according to § 702.601(b).
(b) If the claim is for death benefits and the time of injury occurs after the decedent has retired, compensation shall be the percent specified in section 9 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 909, times the payrate determined according to § 702.603. Total weekly death benefits shall not exceed one fifty-second part of the decedent's average annual earnings during the fifty-two week period preceding retirement, such benefits shall be subject to the limitation provided for in section 6(b)(1) of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 906(b)(1).
[50 FR 406, Jan. 3, 1985, as amended at 51 FR 4286, Feb. 3, 1986]