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

# §231j. Waiver of annuities


Any [person](/usc/45/231.md?p=l) awarded an [annuity](/usc/45/231.md?p=p) under this subchapter may decline to accept all or any part of such [annuity](/usc/45/231.md?p=p) by a waiver signed and filed with the [Board](/usc/45/231.md?p=i). Such a waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of the [annuity](/usc/45/231.md?p=p) waived shall be made covering the period during which such waiver was in effect. Such a waiver will have no effect on entitlement to, or the amount of, any other [annuity](/usc/45/231.md?p=p) or benefit.


## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 812, § 11, 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. 1344.)