Benefit payments1 March 2023 

Total 

Retirement and Survivor Retired employees R

Benefits, Including Spouses and divorced spouses R

Supplemental Annuities Widow(er)s - aged and disabled R

Other benefits R

Number Average2 Number Average2 

Total, regular annuities 480,000 ......... 1,800 ......... ......... 

Regular employee annuities, total 240,900 $3,355 600 $3,369 ......... 

 Awarded age annuity 177,300 3,439 3 200 3 4,286 4 $2,570 

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,600 3,049 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 16,100 3,335 100 3,580 

Spouses and divorced spouses 139,800 1,232 700 1,094 

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 76,700 2,059 400 2,679 

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,199 6/ 1,611 

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,000 1,458 100 1,540 

Children 7,200 1,452 6/ 1,822 

Other survivors 2,800 341 ......... ......... ......... 

Employee supplemental annuities8 102,800 41 100 38 ......... 

R : Revised numbers 

1 Amounts are from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Monthly Treasury Statement. 

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 30); about 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. 

$1,185,494,000 $1,130,555,000 

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - March 2023

 (Revised) 

March 2022 

821,374,000 780,731,000 

174,744,000 167,338,000 

158,159,000 153,465,000 

Monthly benefits March 2023 

31,217,000 29,019,000 

Average under 

Being paid 

end of month 

Awarded in 

month 

Social Security 

$1,833 

Being Paid Awarded 

......... 

......... 

......... 

1,484 $1,684 

877 753 

1,665 1,589 

1,221 1,202 

7/ 7/ 

(Over) 

1,070 1,064 

......... 

......... 
 Unemployment 1,100 $420 

 Sickness 4,000 419 

 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, 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) 

March 2023 

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits 

737 

Average payment1 

Number of beneficiaries 

during month 

Per 2-week 

registration period 

Per 

full week 

March 2023 March 2022 

$762 

Benefit payments1 

7,307,000 8,778,000 

Total $9,298,000 $12,187,000 

1,991,000 3,409,000 

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 March 2022 amount was $0.04 million.