Regulations last checked for updates: May 23, 2025

Title 20 - Employees' Benefits last revised: Mar 17, 2025
§ 219.38 - Evidence of stepparent or stepchild relationship.

If the claimant is a stepparent or stepchild of the employee, the Board will ask for the evidence described in § 219.37 or § 219.39 which shows the person's natural or adoptive relationship to the employee's husband, wife, widow, or widower. The Board will also ask for evidence of the husband's, wife's, widow's or widower's marriage to the employee (See §§ 219.30-219.33).

authority: 45 U.S.C 231f.
source: 54 FR 31942, Aug. 3, 1989, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 20 CFR 219.38