This part contains information about the various lump-sum payments payable under sections 6(a)(1) through 6(d)(2) of the 1974 Act.

As used in this part:

Applicant means the person who signs an application for an annuity or lump-sum for himself, herself or for some other person.

Apply means to sign a form or statement that the Board accepts as an application.

Burial expenses means expenses in connection with the actual burial or other disposition of the remains of the deceased employee.

Eligible means a person meets all the requirements for payment of an annuity or a lump-sum, but has not yet applied.

Employee means any person who is working or has worked for a railroad employer.

Entitled means a person who meets all the requirements for an annuity or a lump-sum, and has applied.

Equitably entitled person means the person whose funds were used to pay the burial expenses of a deceased employee.

Lump-sum means any non-recurring payment due because of an employee's or beneficiary's death.

Person means an individual, partnership, trust estate, association, corporation, government unit, or estate of a deceased individual.

Reimbursable burial expenses means that part of the burial expenses not previously reimbursed by another Federal agency.