Benefit payments1 March 2020

Total

Retirement and Survivor Retired employees

Benefits, Including Spouses and divorced spouses

Supplemental Annuites Widow(er)s - aged and disabled

Other benefits

Number Average2 Number Average2

Total, regular annuities 511,900 ......... 2,100 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 257,300 $2,889 700 $3,095 .........

 Awarded age annuity 187,300 2,964 3 300 3 3,984 4 $2,079

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,900 2,611 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 21,100 2,867 100 2,982

Spouses and divorced spouses 147,900 1,081 900 1,043

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 83,800 1,796 400 2,286

Widowed mothers and fathers 500 1,945 6/ 935

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,400 1,190 100 1,165

Children 7,900 1,190 6/ 1,520

Other benefits 2,200 323 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 116,100 42 200 42 .........

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 33); some 300

 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.

$1,094,603,000 $1,086,683,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - March 2020

March 2019

151,301,000 150,976,000

26,806,000 26,803,000

755,210,000 750,380,000

161,286,000 158,524,000

Average under

.........

.........

Monthly benefits March 2020

Being Paid Awarded

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

$1,509

.........

1,259 $1,407

.........

768 730

1,385 1,351

1,024 1,012

7/ 7/

905 913

.........

(Over)
 Unemployment 5,100 $365 

 Sickness 4,700 365 

 Unemployment3

 Sickness

1

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

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

March 2020 

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

Average payment1

$657 

643

Benefit payments1, 2

14,467,000 3,721,000

March 2020 March 2019

Total $21,599,000 $9,975,000

7,132,000 6,254,000

Bureau of the Actuary and Research

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board