---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 216.13"
title: "20"
number: "216.13"
heading: "Regular current connection test."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/216.13"
---

# §216.13. Regular current connection test.


An employee has a current connection with the railroad industry if he or she meets one of the following requirements:

- (a) The employee has creditable railroad service in at least 12 of the 30 consecutive months immediately preceding the earlier of:
  - (1) The month his or her annuity begins; or
  - (2) **The month he or she dies.**
- (b) The employee has creditable railroad service in at least 12 months in a period of 30 consecutive months and does not work in any regular non-railroad employment in the interval between the month the 30-month period ends and the earlier of:
  - (1) The month his or her annuity begins; or
  - (2) **The month he or she dies.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C. 231f.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 28692, June 24, 1991, unless otherwise noted.