{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-234.51","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 234.51","heading":"Persons to whom a lump-sum refund payment is payable.","body":"Employees receive their lump-sum refund payment from the Board, without applying for it, at the time their regular annuity is awarded. If an employee dies without receiving payment of a regular annuity, the lump-sum refund payment is payable to the employee's survivors in the same order of priority as shown for the RLS in § 234.44.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER II—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD","SUBCHAPTER B—REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT","PART 234—LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS","Subpart E—Lump-Sum Refund Payment"],"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":"2ce0cf7f5214d3744107f99c03fa1ce9e1adade501e4b7104f62b1c9fa0aa908","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-234.50","next":"us/20-cfr-234.52"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}