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Chapter 6 - What is Work for Earnings?

Chapter 6 - What is Work for Earnings?

 

"Work for earnings" is any activity that a disability annuitant performs for money or other form of benefit or compensation. It does not matter what the activity is called or who legally owns the business. It does not matter how the benefit or compensation is received or who benefits from it. The following are examples of work that may impact entitlement to a disability annuity.

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Chapter 5 - How Work Can Affect Your Disability Annuity

Chapter 5 - How Work Can Affect Your Disability Annuity

 

Work can affect your disability annuity by impacting your annuity payment and/or continuance of your disability. Work and earnings can affect the payment of your annuity and must be reported promptly to the RRB in order to avoid potential overpayments and penalties. Work activity can also demonstrate a recovery from your disability, resulting in the termination of your disability annuity. (refer to description of medical recovery.)
 
The following describes the effect of work on your benefit payments.

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Part II - Work and Earnings

Part II - Work and Earnings

 

How Work and Earnings Can Affect Employees Initially Awarded Disability Annuities

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Chapter 4 - What Happens to My Disability Annuity When I Attain Full Retirement Age?

Chapter 4 - What Happens to My Disability Annuity When I Attain Full Retirement Age?

 

Your disability annuity will end the last day of the month before the month in which you attain full retirement age (FRA). This will happen automatically and there is no action you need to take for this to occur. The law provides that upon your attainment of FRA and the termination of your entitlement to a disability annuity, you are deemed to have filed an application for an age and service annuity. Your disability annuity will automatically be converted to an annuity based on age and service and your benefit payments will continue.

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Eligibility Requirements for a Period of Disability ("Disability Freeze")

Eligibility Requirements for a Period of Disability ("Disability Freeze")

 

To receive a period of disability, you must meet three requirements:

  1. A disability requirement, and
  2. an earnings requirement, and
  3. a waiting period requirement for early Medicare.

A. Disability Requirement Defined

To meet this requirement, you must either:

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How A Period Of Disability ("Disability Freeze") Can Help You

How A Period Of Disability ("Disability Freeze") Can Help You

 

A period of disability protects your earnings record so that the time you are severely disabled will not count against you or your surviving dependents when the amount of monthly benefits is computed.

Although the period of disability is not a monthly cash benefit in itself, it provides that all or part of the entire Tier I portion of your annuity will be taxed in the same manner as a social security benefit. It also may provide the following:

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Events That Can Affect Your Disability Benefits

Events That Can Affect Your Disability Benefits

 

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Applying for Early Medicare Coverage

Applying for Early Medicare Coverage

 

  • Read more about Applying for Early Medicare Coverage

About Your Period of Disability ("Disability Freeze")

About Your Period of Disability ("Disability Freeze")

 

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Chapter 3 - What Happens to My Disability Annuity When I Meet the Requirements for an Age and Service Annuity?

Chapter 3 - What Happens to My Disability Annuity When I Meet the Requirements for an Age and Service Annuity?

 

An individual's attainment of age 60 with 30 years of service does not have any impact on the disability annuity to which the individual is entitled; nor does it impact the disability earnings restrictions. This is true even though the individual would have otherwise qualified for a full age annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) based on being at least age 60 with 30 years of service.

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