---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 234.51"
title: "20"
number: "234.51"
heading: "Persons to whom a lump-sum refund payment is payable."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/234.51"
---

# §234.51. Persons to whom a lump-sum refund payment is payable.


Employees receive their lump-sum refund payment from the Board, without applying for it, at the time their regular annuity is awarded. If an employee dies without receiving payment of a regular annuity, the lump-sum refund payment is payable to the employee's survivors in the same order of priority as shown for the RLS in [§ 234.44](/cfr/20/234.44.md).


## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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