Peter J. Sallas,petitioner v. Railroad Retirement Board

Peter J. Sallas petitions for review of the decision of the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) denying a waiver of recovery of overpaid benefits. We grant Mr. Sallas’s petition and reverse the RRB’s decision.

Mr. Sallas, born on April 18, 1922, was a railroad employee from May 1956 through May 31, 1984. For several years, he had also worked part-time as a clerk at Berbig-lia, Inc., a liquor store. Mr. Sallas quit his Berbiglia employment in April 1984 because his railroad employment caused him to travel to Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri. Mr. Sallas’s railroad employer subsequently…