Benefit payments1 January 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 492,400 ......... 2,200 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 247,300 $3,112 700 $3,177 .........

 Awarded age annuity 181,100 3,193 3 200 3 4,284 4 $2,408

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,400 2,816 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 17,800 3,082 100 3,328

Spouses and divorced spouses 143,200 1,156 800 1,126

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 79,300 1,930 500 2,546

Widowed mothers and fathers 500 2,066 6/ 2,081

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,000 1,314 100 1,374

Children 7,500 1,318 6/ 1,876

Other survivors 2,500 327 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 108,100 42 200 38 .........

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 32); about 400

 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.

.........

$1,661

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - January 2022

Average under

162,826,000

$1,131,659,000 $1,098,566,000

Monthly benefits January 2022

January 2021

153,507,000 151,517,000

28,914,000 27,035,000

782,079,000 757,188,000

167,158,000

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

.........

Being Paid Awarded

(Over)

.........

1,514 1,531

.........

1,116 1,114

7/ 7/

981 1,010

.........

1,359 1,564

820 730
 Unemployment 2,600 $404 

 Sickness 5,700 405 

 Unemployment

 Sickness

1

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

 reduction of 6.2% under sequestration for days of unemployment and sickness after September 30, 2018, 5.9% for

 days after September 30, 2019, 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. The

January 2022 amount calculated for payment was less than $0.03 million and the January 2021 amount was

$6.8 million.

3,940,000 11,270,000

Total

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)

January 2022

$736 

721

 $12,309,000 $19,121,000 

Benefit payments1

January 2022 January 2021

8,368,000 7,851,000