Benefit payments1 October 2023

Total

Retirement and Survivor Retired employees

Benefits, Including Spouses and divorced spouses

Supplemental Annuities Widow(er)s - aged and disabled

Other benefits

Number Average2 Number Average2

Total, regular annuities 475,100 ......... 1,600 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 238,600 $3,366 600 $3,313 .........

 Awarded age annuity 175,900 3,449 3 200 3 4,324 4 $2,500

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,100 3,060 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 15,700 3,353 100 3,619

Spouses and divorced spouses 138,600 1,233 500 1,080

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 75,600 2,093 400 2,723

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,250 6/ 2,626

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 11,900 1,467 100 1,343

Children 7,000 1,452 6/ 1,687

Other survivors 2,900 341 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 100,400 41 100 37 .........

1 Data provided by the Bureau of Fiscal Operations.

2 Railroad retirement benefits shown are net of reduction for social security benefit entitlement.

3 For employees retiring directly from the railroad industry with full age annuity (their years of service averaged 31); about 300 other age

 annuities were awarded in the month, representing deferred retirements as well as employees

4 For men full retirement age or over. 

5 A disability annuity ends when the retiree attains full retirement age, at which time the annuity converts to an age and service annuity.

 Consequently, these annuitants are receiving age and service annuities. Full retirement age gradually increases, from age 65 to 67,

 for those born between 1937 and 1960. It is age 67 for those born after 1959 and age 65 for those born before 1938.

6 Fewer than 50.

7 Remarried and divorced widow(er)s included with aged and disabled widow(er)s and widowed mothers and fathers.

8 Excludes partition payments to spouses and divorced spouses where the employee is deceased. Number and averages are for

 employee annuitants only and reflect court-ordered partitions. 

Note. --Data are on a cash basis (unaudited) and are partly estimated. Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

Regular retirement and survivor benefit payments total includes hospital insurance benefits for services in Canada.

(Over)

1,068 1,053

.........

.........

1,672 1,577

1,240 1,174

7/ 7/

.........

1,489 1,665

866 722

.........

.........

$1,844

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

Monthly benefits October 2023

30,549,000 28,654,000

818,425,000 775,340,000

173,201,000 166,647,000

158,948,000 153,588,000

$1,181,122,000 $1,124,230,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - October 2023

October 2022
 Unemployment 1,000 $408 

 Sickness 3,700 409 

 Unemployment

 Sickness

1

 In accordance with the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, amounts reflect a 

 reduction of 5.7% under sequestration for days of unemployment and sickness after September 30, 2020, and before

 January 3, 2021. Beginning January 3, 2021, the Continued Assistance to Rail Workers Act of 2020 (CARWA) 

 temporarily suspended sequestration through May 9, 2023, 30 days after the Presidential declaration of an end to the 

 national emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Benefits are currently sequestered at 5.7% through fiscal 

 year 2031.

Notes: - Data are on a cash basis (unaudited). Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

October 2023

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

746

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

October 2023 October 2022

$756 

Benefit payments1

Total $7,713,000 $8,318,000

1,684,000 1,533,000 

6,029,000 6,785,000 

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board