---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 219.20"
title: "20"
number: "219.20"
heading: "When evidence of age is required."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/219.20"
---

# §219.20. When evidence of age is required.

- (a) Evidence of age is required when an employee applies for an annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act or for Medicare coverage under title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
- (b) Evidence of age is also required from a person who applies for a spouse's or divorced spouse's, widow's, widower's, surviving divorced spouse's, parent's, or child's annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act, or for Medicare coverage under title XVIII of the Social Security Act.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C 231f.

### Source

Source: 54 FR 31942, Aug. 3, 1989, unless otherwise noted.