2006 CFR Title 20, Volume 1

Title 20--Employees' Benefits CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD PART 220--DETERMINING DISABILITY
	220.1	Introduction of part.
	220.2	The basis for the Board's disability decision.
	220.3	Determinations by other organizations and agencies.
	220.5	Definitions as used in this part.
	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.
	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.
	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).
	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.
	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.
	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.
	220.110	Listing of Impairments in appendix 1 of this part.
	220.111	Medical equivalence.
	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.
	220.120	The claimant's residual functional capacity.
	220.121	Responsibility for assessing and determining residual functional capacity.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	220.170	The trial work period.
	220.171	The reentitlement period.
	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.