Amending the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - Pensions - 405 pages
Considers S. 226 and related S. 280, S. 875, and S. 987, to amend the Railroad Retirement Act, the Railroad Retirement Tax Act, the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and the Social Security Act to liberalize administration of and to increase amount of railroad retirement pensions, and to increase railroad employee pension taxes to compensate for pension payment increase.

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Page 24 - Secretary shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable to such State under this section.
Page 350 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page 47 - A payment made by an employer to an individual through the employer's payroll shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be compensation for service rendered by such individual as an employee of the employer in the period with respect to which the payment is made. An employee shall be deemed to be paid, "for time lost...
Page 81 - Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America. Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes.
Page 48 - In a benefit year but has exhausted such rights, the benefit year in which such rights are exhausted shall be deemed not to be ended until the last day of the extended benefit period determined under the following schedule, and the maximum number of days of, and amount of payment for, unemployment...
Page 49 - December 31, 1958, of the aggregate compensation paid to said employee by all said employers with respect to such calendar month, and each employer other than a subordinate unit of a national railway-labor-organization employer...
Page 43 - ... to which an individual is entitled, until the total of such deductions equals such individual's annuity or...

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