Part 220 — Determining Disability
Subpart A — General
Subpart B — General Definitions of Terms 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
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
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
Subpart I — Medical Considerations
Subpart J — 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
Subpart M — Disability Annuity Earnings Restrictions
Subpart N — Trial Work Period and Reentitlement Period for Annuitants Disabled for Any Regular Employment
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.