Benefit payments1 December 2022

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 484,700 ......... 1,200 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 243,300 $3,348 400 $3,286 .........

 Awarded age annuity 178,800 3,432 3 100 3 4,146 4 $2,500

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,000 3,040 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 16,600 3,328 100 3,576

Spouses and divorced spouses 141,100 1,232 400 1,117

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 77,600 2,042 300 2,602

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,191 6/ 2,052

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,100 1,451 100 1,484

Children 7,300 1,444 6/ 1,922

Other benefits 2,700 340 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 104,300 41 6/ 41 .........

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 30); some 200

 other age annuities were awarded in the month. 

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.

$1,119,399,000 $1,089,024,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - December 2022

December 2021

771,690,000 749,164,000

165,264,000 161,149,000

153,604,000 151,716,000

Monthly benefits December 2022

28,840,000 26,995,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

.........

.........

$1,825

.........

1,483 1,685

880 756

1,659 1,581

1,232 1,200

7/ 7/

(Over)

1,067 1,060

.........

.........
 Unemployment 1,100 $422 

 Sickness 4,300 420 

 Unemployment

 Sickness

1

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

 reduction of 5.9% under sequestration for days of unemployment and sickness after September 30, 2019, and 5.7% for

 days 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 until 30 days after a Presidential declaration

 of an end to the national emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

Bureau of the Actuary and Research

- Beginning in May 2020, RUIA claimants have also been paid under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic

Security Act of 2020 (CARES Act), CARWA, and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), with no

benefits payable under these acts for registration periods beginning after September 6, 2021. There is no

current activity. The December 2021 amount was $0.07 million.

1,988,000 4,507,000 

7,695,000 8,718,000 

Benefit payments1

Total $9,683,000 $13,225,000

December 2022 December 2021

$781 

769

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

December 2022

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits