Title 45, RailroadsRelease 119-102

§231h Returns of Compensation; Conclusiveness

Title 45 › CHAPTER 9 — RETIREMENT OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES › SUBCHAPTER IV — RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT OF 1974 › § 231h

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Employers must file reports with the Board showing how much they paid employees. They must do this in the form, way, and at the times the Board requires. If the Board asks, employers must also give workers copies of the reported pay. The Board’s records are taken as final proof of what an employee was paid for each reported period. If the records show no report for a period, that is final proof no pay was made then, unless the mistake or missing report is told to the Board within four years after the day the report was due.

Full Legal Text

Title 45, §231h

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Employers shall file with the Board, in such manner and form and at such times as the Board by rules and regulations may prescribe, returns of compensation of employees, and, if the Board shall so require, shall furnish employees with statements of their compensation as reported to the Board. The Board’s record of the compensation so returned shall be conclusive as to the amount of compensation paid to an employee during each period covered by the return, and the fact that the Board’s records show that no return was made of the compensation claimed to have been paid to an employee during a particular period shall be taken as conclusive that no compensation was paid to such employee during that period, unless the error in the amount of compensation returned in the one case, or the failure to make return of the compensation in the other case, is called to the attention of the Board within four years after the day on which return of the compensation was required to be made.

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Citation

45 U.S.C. § 231h

Title 45, Railroads

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102