---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 231g"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "231g"
heading: "Court jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/231g"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Retirement of Railroad Employees"
  - "Subchapter IV — Railroad Retirement Act of 1974"
---

# §231g. Court jurisdiction


Decisions of the [Board](/usc/45/231.md?p=i) determining the rights or liabilities of any [person](/usc/45/231.md?p=l) under this subchapter shall be subject to judicial review in the same manner, subject to the same limitations, and all provisions of law shall apply in the same manner as though the decision were a determination of corresponding rights or liabilities under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act [[45 U.S.C. 351](/usc/45/351.md) et seq.] except that the time within which proceedings for the review of a decision with respect to an [annuity](/usc/45/231.md?p=p), supplemental [annuity](/usc/45/231.md?p=p), or lump-sum benefit may be commenced shall be one year after the decision will have been entered upon the records of the [Board](/usc/45/231.md?p=i) and communicated to the claimant.


## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 812, § 8, as restated June 24, 1937, ch. 382, pt. I, 50 Stat. 307, as restated Pub. L. 93–445, title I, § 101, Oct. 16, 1974, 88 Stat. 1343.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, referred to in text, is act June 25, 1938, ch. 680, 52 Stat. 1094, which is classified principally to chapter 11 (§ 351 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 367 of this title and Tables.