Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 20 - Employees' Benefits last revised: Sep 30, 2024
§ 219.63 - What evidence is required to establish “good cause”.

The Board will ask for the following evidence of “good cause”:

(a) The claimant's signed statement explaining why he or she did not file the application for lump-sum death payment or annuity unpaid at death or the parent's proof of support within the specified two-year period.

(b) If the statement in paragraph (a) of this section or other evidence raises a reasonable doubt as to whether there was good cause, other convincing evidence to establish “good cause”.

authority: 45 U.S.C 231f.
source: 54 FR 31942, Aug. 3, 1989, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 20 CFR 219.63