CFR /  Title 20  /  Part 220: Determining Disability

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