C.F.R. » Title 20 » CHAPTER VI—OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › SUBCHAPTER B—FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED › PART 725—CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS UNDER PART C OF TITLE IV OF THE FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT, AS AMENDED › Subpart C—Filing of Claims

20 C.F.R. § 725.303

Date and place of filing of claims

Read at: eCFRecfr.gov CornellLII GovInfogovinfo.gov CasesGoogle Scholar

(a)(1) Claims for benefits shall be delivered, mailed to, or presented at, any of the various district offices of the Social Security Administration, or any of the various offices of the Department of Labor authorized to accept claims, or, in the case of a claim filed by or on behalf of a claimant residing outside the United States, mailed or presented to any office maintained by the Foreign Service of the United States. A claim shall be considered filed on the day it is received by the office in which it is first filed.

(2) A claim submitted to a Foreign Service Office or any other agency or subdivision of the U.S. Government shall be forwarded to the Office and considered filed as of the date it was received at the Foreign Service Office or other governmental agency or unit.

(b) A claim submitted by mail shall be considered filed as of the date of delivery unless a loss or impairment of benefit rights would result, in which case a claim shall be considered filed as of the date of its postmark. In the absence of a legible postmark, other evidence may be used to establish the mailing date.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1979–2026 · leading case: Arch Coal, Inc. v. R. Alexander Acosta, 888 F.3d 493 (D.C. Cir. 2018).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Arch Coal, Inc. v. R. Alexander Acosta, 888 F.3d 493 (D.C. Cir. 2018). “See 20 C.F.R. §§ 725.303 , 401 (2017). The District Director investigates the claim to determine whether the claimant is eligible for benefits and which employer, if any, is potentially responsible under the BLBA.”
Dorothy Gray, Widow of Eugene Gray v. Dir., Off. of Workers' Comp. Programs, United States Dep't of Labor Riverton Coal Co., 943 F.2d 513 (4th Cir. 1991). “§ 725.350. The deputy commissioner makes initial findings on the claimant’s eligibility and whether there is a responsible operator.”
James Garland, Ida Wright Simon, Martha Perry, Elizabeth Boone & Janie B. Carter v. Dir., United States Dep't of Labor, 713 F.2d 613 (11th Cir. 1983). “20 C.F.R. § 725.303 (1983). A deputy commissioner after reviewing the claim and accepting a response from the coal mine operator issues a proposed decision and order.”
Huddleston v. P & L Coal Co., 587 S.W.2d 377 (Tenn. 1979). “Appellants, however, insist that the last employer of appellee, P & L Coal Company, is not liable to appellee because he had not been employed by that company for as much as one year, so as to make appellant “a responsible operator” under the federal regulations promulgated by…”
Clinchfield Coal Co. v. Geraldine Mullins (4th Cir. 2025). “at § 932(a) (incorporating the procedures outlined in the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act into the BLBA); 20 C.F.R. §§ 725.303 , 401. That claim is filed with the District Director in the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs.”
Jeffrey Hayes v. Dir., OWCP (11th Cir. 2026). “See 20 C.F.R. §§ 725.303 (a)(1), 725.451. A party who disagrees with the director’s decision may seek review from an administrative law judge.”
Sextet Mining Corp. v. Mary Whitfield, 604 F. App'x 442 (6th Cir. 2015). “20 C.F.R. §§ 725.303 (a), 725.350(a)-(b), 725.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.