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Encyclopedia > Railroad Retirement Board

The Railroad Retirement Board (or RRB) was an agency of the United States government created in the 1930s which established a retirement benefit program for the country's railroad workers. Today, the RRB serves U.S. railroad workers and their families and administers retirement, survivor, unemployment, and sickness benefits. Railroad workers do not pay money into Social Security nor do they receive Social Security Benefits. The government of the United States, established by the United States Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 states, a few territories and some protectorates. ... // Events and trends A public speech by Benito Mussolini, founder of the Fascist movement The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Retirement is the status of a worker who has stopped working. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California during the Great Depression. ... Social Security in the United States is a social insurance program funded through a dedicated payroll tax. ...


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A retirement plan is an arrangement to provide people with an income, or pension, during retirement, when they are no longer earning a steady income from employment. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ...

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P-FMSIG :: 20CFR200: Railroad Retirement Board (11445 words)
Medical records shall not be disclosed by the Board to any entities or persons other than the individual to whom the record pertains or his or her authorized physician regardless of consent, except as permissible under paragraphs (j)(1)(i), (iii), and (viii) of this section and as provided under paragraph (e)(4) of this section.
Since the RRB is claiming that this system of records is exempt from subsection (d) of the Act, concerning access to records, this section is inapplicable and is exempted to the extent that this system of records is exempted from subsection (d) of the Act.
The Railroad Retirement Board shall maintain the accounting for five years or the life of the system of records, whichever is longer, and make such accounting, with the exception of disclosures made under paragraph (h)(1)(vii) of this section, available to the individual to whom the record pertains upon his request.
98-9502 -- Matlock v. Railroad Retirement Board -- 12/03/1998 (1669 words)
Petitioner argues also that the hearing officer and Board erred in ignoring her evidence that she was married to decedent under Oklahoma common law between the spring of 1985 and the date of decedent's death.
Finally, we conclude the Board did not err in failing to rule on petitioner's claim of an Oklahoma common law marriage with decedent, as she abandoned this argument by not raising it either to the hearing officer, see R. at 165, 176-77, or to the Board, id.
The decision of the Railroad Retirement Board is AFFIRMED.
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