45 USC § 231j - Waiver of annuities

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identifier: "/us/usc/t45/s231j"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "45 USC § 231j - Waiver of annuities"
title_number: 45
title_name: "RAILROADS"
section_number: "231j"
section_name: "Waiver of annuities"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "RETIREMENT OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT OF 1974"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2024-06-14"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 812, § 11, as restated June 24, 1937, ch. 382, pt. I, 50 Stat. 307, as restated Pub. L. 93–445, title I, § 101, Oct. 16, 1974, 88 Stat. 1344.)"
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# § 231j. Waiver of annuities

Any person awarded an annuity under this subchapter may decline to accept all or any part of such annuity by a waiver signed and filed with the Board. Such a waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of the annuity waived shall be made covering the period during which such waiver was in effect. Such a waiver will have no effect on entitlement to, or the amount of, any other annuity or benefit.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 812, § 11, as restated June 24, 1937, ch. 382, pt. I, 50 Stat. 307, as restated Pub. L. 93–445, title I, § 101, Oct. 16, 1974, 88 Stat. 1344.)