---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 234.14"
title: "20"
number: "234.14"
heading: "Payment to an equitably entitled person."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/234.14"
---

# §234.14. Payment to an equitably entitled person.

- (a) An equitably entitled person's funds used to pay burial expenses may consist of:
  - (1) The individual's own money;
  - (2) Money in a joint account with the employee or another individual;
  - (3) Money paid to an individual who was named beneficiary to receive the money;
  - (4) A promissory note; or
  - (5) **Money which several people placed into a pooled fund.**
- (b) **Payment is made to equitably entitled persons in the following order—**
  - (1) The person who paid the funeral home expenses;
  - (2) The person who paid the grave opening and closing expenses;
  - (3) The person who provided the burial plot; and
  - (4) **The person who paid any type of expenses not listed in paragraphs (b)(1) through (3) of this section.**

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 51 FR 3036, Jan. 23, 1986, unless otherwise noted.