Benefit payments1 May 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 510,500 ......... 1,700 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 256,500 $2,893 600 $3,053 .........

 Awarded age annuity 186,700 2,968 3 200 3 3,994 4 $2,117

 Disability converted to age annuity5 49,100 2,615 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 20,800 2,868 200 2,819

Spouses and divorced spouses 147,600 1,082 600 1,086

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 83,400 1,806 500 2,335

Widowed mothers and fathers 500 1,964 6/ 2,217

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,400 1,194 6/ 1,316

Children 7,900 1,194 6/ 1,639

Other benefits 2,200 322 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 115,400 42 100 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 33); 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.

Monthly benefits May 2020

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - May 2020

Average under

161,284,000 158,213,000

Being paid

end of month

$1,513

.........

1,387 1,351

.........

.........

1,259 1,420

767 724

1,027 1,048

7/ 7/

906 917

Being Paid Awarded

Awarded in

month

Social Security

.........

May 2019

151,509,000 151,085,000

26,789,000 26,580,000

755,248,000 748,283,000

$1,094,831,000 $1,084,161,000

(Over)

.........
 Unemployment 13,700 $371 

 Sickness 4,700 364 

 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 2019 have been adjusted to reflect gross amounts.

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

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

 Security Act of 2020 (CARES Act). The May 2020 amount calculated for payment was $ 36.0 million.

 3,068,000 

Benefit payments1, 2

6,215,000 5,614,000 

May 2020 May 2019

Total $21,909,000 $8,682,000

15,694,000 

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

Bureau of the Actuary and Research

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

Average payment1

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

May 2020

$633 

622