---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 219.50"
title: "20"
number: "219.50"
heading: "When evidence of “living with” is required."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/219.50"
---

# §219.50. When evidence of “living with” is required.


Evidence of “living with” (see [part 222](/cfr/20/part222.md) of this chapter on Family Relationships) is required when—

- (a) The employee's spouse applies for a spouse's annuity as a deemed spouse; or
- (b) The employee's legal widow or widower applies for a lump-sum death payment, annuity payments due the employee but unpaid at death, or a residual lump-sum death payment on the basis of that relationship, or the employee's deemed widow or widower applies for a widow's or widower's annuity.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C 231f.

### Source

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