---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 222.24"
title: "20"
number: "222.24"
heading: "Relationship as remarried widow(er)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/222.24"
---

# §222.24. Relationship as remarried widow(er).

- (a) **New eligibility.** A claimant will have the relationship of a remarried widow(er) if he or she is the widow(er), as discussed in [§ 222.11](/cfr/20/222.11.md), of an employee and the claimant—
  - (1) Remarried after attaining age 60, or remarried after attaining age 50 and after the date on which he or she became disabled; or
  - (2) Remarried before attaining age 60, but is now unmarried, or remarried before attaining age 50 or before the date on which he or she became disabled, but is now unmarried.
- (b) **Reentitlement.** A claimant will have the relationship of a remarried widow(er) if he or she remarries after his or her entitlement to an annuity as a widow(er) has been established, and the claimant—
  - (1) Remarries after attaining age 60, or remarries after attaining age 50 and after the date on which he or she became disabled; or
  - (2) Is entitled to an annuity based upon having a child of the employee in care and remarries, but this marriage is to a person who is entitled to a retirement, disability, widow(er)'s, mother's, father's, parent's, or disabled child's benefit under the Railroad Retirement Act or Social Security Act.

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 54 FR 42949, Oct. 19, 1989, unless otherwise noted.