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Part 220 — Determining Disability

97 sections · Title 20: Employees' Benefits

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