---
kind: "unit"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Employees' Benefits"
key: "chII/subchB/part260"
level: "part"
label: "Part 260"
heading: "Requests for Reconsideration and Appeals Within the Board"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/chII-subchB-part260"
sections_count: 10
---

# Part 260 — Requests for Reconsideration and Appeals Within the Board

Title 20 C.F.R. — Employees' Benefits › Chapter II — Railroad Retirement Board › Subchapter B — Regulations under the Railroad Retirement Act

## Sections

- [§260.1. Initial decisions.](/cfr/20/260.1.md)
- [§260.2. Initial decisions on the amount of service and compensation credited to an employee.](/cfr/20/260.2.md)
- [§260.3. Request for reconsideration of initial decision.](/cfr/20/260.3.md)
- [§260.4. Request for waiver of recovery of an overpayment and/or for reconsideration of an initial erroneous payment decision.](/cfr/20/260.4.md)
- [§260.5. Appeal from a reconsideration decision.](/cfr/20/260.5.md)
- [§260.6. Time limits for issuing a hearing decision.](/cfr/20/260.6.md)
- [§260.7. Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held.](/cfr/20/260.7.md)
- [§260.8. Pre-hearing case review.](/cfr/20/260.8.md)
- [§260.9. Final appeal from a decision of the hearings officer.](/cfr/20/260.9.md)
- [§260.10. Determination of date of filing.](/cfr/20/260.10.md)