Benefit payments1 August 2023

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 476,400 ......... 1,700 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 239,200 $3,363 600 $3,425 .........

 Awarded age annuity 176,200 3,446 3 200 3 4,244 4 $2,526

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,100 3,057 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 15,900 3,347 100 3,502

Spouses and divorced spouses 138,900 1,233 600 1,125

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 75,800 2,084 400 2,729

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,240 6/ 1,507

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,000 1,467 100 1,396

Children 7,000 1,448 6/ 2,093

Other survivors 2,900 340 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 101,100 41 100 39 .........

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.

1,067 1,038

.........

.........

(Over)

1,670 1,572

1,241 1,199

7/ 7/

1,487 1,671

869 725

.........

$1,840

.........

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

776,205,000

166,506,000

153,909,000

28,809,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - August 2023

818,934,000

August 2022

Monthly benefits August 2023

31,006,000

$1,182,761,000 $1,125,430,000

.........

174,104,000

158,716,000
 Unemployment 900 $407 

 Sickness 3,600 405 

 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, and 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 through May 9, 2023, 30 days after a

 Presidential declaration of an end to the national emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Benefits are

 currently sequestered at 5.7% through fiscal year 2031.

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

1,607,000 1,756,000 

August 2023

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

August 2023

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

729

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

$744 

Benefit payments1

Total $7,786,000 $9,225,000

August 2022

6,179,000 7,469,000 

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board