{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-226.1","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 226.1","heading":"Introduction.","body":"This part explains how employee, spouse, and divorced spouse annuities are computed. It describes how to determine the years of railroad service and average monthly compensation used in computing the employee annuity rate. The railroad retirement family maximum, cost-of-living increases, and the recomputation of an annuity to include additional railroad earnings are also explained in this part.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER II—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD","SUBCHAPTER B—REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT","PART 226—COMPUTING EMPLOYEE, SPOUSE, AND DIVORCED SPOUSE ANNUITIES","Subpart A—General"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-20.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:45Z","sha256":"87c2d72b35b938e6476bf91323182e4b5d833af99628710766115ae0cb73dbf6","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-225.60","next":"us/20-cfr-226.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}