Benefit payments1 June 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 488,600 ......... 1,600 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 245,300 $3,122 600 $3,202 .........

 Awarded age annuity 179,900 3,204 3 200 3 4,182 4 $2,304

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,900 2,825 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 17,500 3,090 100 3,346

Spouses and divorced spouses 142,100 1,159 500 1,121

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 78,500 1,956 400 2,527

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,107 6/ 223

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,100 1,327 100 1,448

Children 7,400 1,326 6/ 1,708

Other benefits 2,600 332 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 106,300 41 6/ 37 .........

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); 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.

$1,125,445,000 $1,097,086,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - June 2022

776,747,000

166,357,000

153,510,000

Monthly benefits June 2022

28,828,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

June 2021

755,800,000

162,121,000

152,099,000

27,066,000

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

.........

.........

$1,669

.........

1,362 1,583

816 698

1,519 1,456

1,129 1,096

7/ 7/

(Over)

982 955

.........

.........
 Unemployment 1,000 $405 

 Sickness 3,800 405 

 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, 2019, 5.9% for

 days after September 30, 2020, 5.7% for days after September 30, 2021, and before January 3, 2021, under the 

 Continued Assistance to Rail Workers Act of 2020 (CARWA), sequestration is temporarily suspended 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 June 2022 

 amount calculated for payment was $2,000 and the June 2021 amount was $12.8 million.

1,696,000 3,820,000 

5,979,000 6,711,000 

Benefit payments1

Total $7,676,000 $10,531,000

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

711

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

$726 

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

June 2022

June 2022 June 2021