Does employment with a rail labor organization affect eligibility for a disability annuity?
Payment of an employee’s disability annuity cannot begin earlier than the day after the employee stops working in compensated service for any railroad employer, including labor organizations. Such work includes service for more than $24.99 in a calendar month to a local lodge or division of a railway labor organization. Also, work by a local lodge or division secretary collecting insurance premiums, regardless of the amount of salary, is railroad work which must be stopped. In fact, an employee cannot file an application for a disability annuity until he or she is no longer on the payroll of a railroad or railroad union. 11. Must an employee relinquish employment rights in order to receive a disability annuity? A disabled employee may continue to hold employment rights until full retirement age. However, in order for the supplemental annuity to be paid or for an eligible spouse to receive benefits, a disability annuitant under full retirement age must relinquish his or her rights. 12.
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