ICERS shows spouse of claimant has 60 months of railroad service accrued after December
31, 1995, or 120 total months of service:
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Process as a RR-Cert case. For information on processing life cases, see RS 01602.150 in this section.
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The spouse of the claimant’s Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) shows:
Rail data, including an RLCN with a suffix of “10” indicating the receipt of an RRB
retirement annuity. For more information, see SM 00510.515B.1.b. This is based on
an interface with RRB; or
Account data line, railroad information (RR) field shows “ANN” or “ELG”.
Caution: This data is manually input by SSA and is not validated against other data
or systems; or
Benefit data line, RRIC field shows a “R.”
Caution: The RRIC of “R” shows that the benefits are certified to the RRB, which is
not the same as vesting.
To view an exhibit of the account data line, see SM 00510.070.
To view an exhibit of the benefit data field, see SM 00510.175.
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Conclude spouse has 60 months after 1995, or 120 or more months or RR earnings and
process as RR-Cert case.
CAUTION: The spouse of the claimant might be a surviving spouse of a deceased railroad employee
where the RRB has jurisdiction of the survivor benefit. For this situation, the spouse
will have RRB certification (LAF E) but the number holder on the MBR will be paid
by SSA (LAF C.)
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