If you are a non-vested worker, we (the Social Security Administration) will consider your services in the railroad industry to be ``employment'' as defined in section 210 of the Social Security Act for the following purposes:
(a) To determine entitlement to, or the amount of, any monthly benefits or lump-sum death payment on the basis of your wages and self-employment income;
(b) To determine entitlement to, or the amount of, any survivor monthly benefit or any lump-sum death payment on the basis of your wages and self-employment income provided you did not have a ``current connection'' with the railroad industry, as defined in section 1(o) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, as amended, (45 U.S.C. 231(o)), at the time of your death; (in such cases, survivor benefits are not payable under the Railroad Retirement Act);
(c) To determine entitlement to a period of disability (see subpart B of this part) on the basis of your wages and self-employment income; or
(d) To apply the provisions of section 203 of the Social Security Act concerning deductions from benefits under the annual earnings test (see subpart E of this part). [69 FR 5693, Feb. 6, 2004]