Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement
	

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - November 2019
	

Retirement and Survivor 

Benefits, Including 

Supplemental Annuites 

 Benefit payments1 November 2019 November 2018 

Total 

Retired employees 

Spouses and divorced spouses 

Widow(er)s - aged and disabled 

Other benefits 

$1,083,773,000 

746,496,000 

159,355,000 

151,406,000 

26,516,000 

$1,065,330,000 

733,648,000 

154,714,000 

151,002,000 

25,966,000 

Monthly benefits 

Being paid 

end of month 

Awarded in 

month November 2019 

Social Security 

Average under 

Number Average2 Number Average2 Being Paid Awarded 

Total, regular annuities 

Regular employee annuities, total 

 Awarded age annuity 

 Disability converted to age annuity5 

Disability 

Spouses and divorced spouses 

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 

Widowed mothers and fathers 

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 

Children 

514,800 

258,700 

188,000 

48,700 

22,000 

148,100 

84,900 

600 

12,400 

7,900 

......... 

$2,844 

2,917 

2,568 

2,823 

1,066 

1,774 

1,941 

1,170 

1,161 

1,800 

600 

3 300 

......... 

100 

700 

400 

6/ 

6/ 

6/ 

......... 

$3,031 

3 3,910 

......... 

2,810 

1,027 

2,312 

1,429 

1,003 

1,528 

1,020 

7/ 

887 

754 

1,358 

1,238 

......... 

......... 

$1,478 

......... 

......... 

......... 4 $1,957

.........

995 

7/ 

887 

784 

1,316 

1,391

Other benefits 2,100 323 ......... ......... ......... ......... 

Employee supplemental annuities8 117,400 42 200 40 ......... ......... 

1

Data provided by 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 34); 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. 

(Over) 
 

 

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued) 

November 2019 

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits 

Average payment1 

Number of beneficiaries 

during month 

Per 2-week 

registration period 

Per 

full week 

 Unemployment 4,600 $666 $364 

 Sickness 4,800 

November 2019 

674 365 

Gross benefit payments1, 2

November 2018

Total $12,847,000 $9,993,000

 Unemployment 6,204,000 9,993,000 

 Sickness 6,643,000 6,868,000

1

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

 Act of 2011, amounts reflect a reduction of 6.9% under sequestration for days of unemployment and sickness after 

 September 30, 2016, 6.6% for days after September 30, 2017, 6.2% for days after September 30, 2018, and 5.9% for

 days after September 30, 2019. 

2

 Prior to July 2019, unemployment and sickness benefit payments were based on net amounts. Beginning in July 2019,

 that data is no longer available. Benefit payments for 2018 and 2019 have been adjusted to reflect gross amounts. 

Note. --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