{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-234.2","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 234.2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part:\nApplicant means the person who signs an application for an annuity or lump-sum for himself, herself or for some other person.\nApply means to sign a form or statement that the Board accepts as an application.\nBurial expenses means expenses in connection with the actual burial or other disposition of the remains of the deceased employee.\nEligible means a person meets all the requirements for payment of an annuity or a lump-sum, but has not yet applied.\nEmployee means any person who is working or has worked for a railroad employer.\nEntitled means a person who meets all the requirements for an annuity or a lump-sum, and has applied.\nEquitably entitled person means the person whose funds were used to pay the burial expenses of a deceased employee.\nLump-sum means any non-recurring payment due because of an employee's or beneficiary's death.\nPerson means an individual, partnership, trust estate, association, corporation, government unit, or estate of a deceased individual.\nReimbursable burial expenses means that part of the burial expenses not previously reimbursed by another Federal agency.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER II—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD","SUBCHAPTER B—REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT","PART 234—LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS","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":"97822fe0188c9310b98c654ca2fad9cc7e550dc31bc460a9827d650a85c38dd4","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-234.1","next":"us/20-cfr-234.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}