Benefit payments1 October 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 485,600 ......... 1,500 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 243,800 $3,130 500 $3,292 .........

 Awarded age annuity 179,000 3,213 3 200 3 4,146 4 $2,297

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,800 2,833 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 17,000 3,097 100 3,377

Spouses and divorced spouses 141,400 1,160 500 1,088

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 77,700 1,975 400 2,570

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,135 6/ 1,638

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,100 1,332 100 1,300

Children 7,300 1,335 6/ 1,872

Other benefits 2,700 333 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 104,900 41 100 39 .........

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); 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.

$1,124,230,000 $1,092,240,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - October 2022

October 2021

775,340,000 751,588,000

166,647,000 161,864,000

153,588,000 151,622,000

Monthly benefits October 2022

28,654,000 27,165,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

.........

.........

$1,677

.........

1,364 1,561

812 694

1,524 1,443

1,136 1,079

7/ 7/

(Over)

981 966

.........

.........
 Unemployment 1,000 $414 

 Sickness 4,200 411 

 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.

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

October 2022

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

751

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

October 2022 October 2021

$758 

Benefit payments1

Total $8,318,000 $11,767,000

1,533,000 3,928,000 

6,785,000 7,839,000 

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 October 2021 amount was $0.5 million.