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