Benefit payments1 May 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 489,300 ......... 1,500 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 245,700 $3,121 500 $3,100 .........

 Awarded age annuity 180,100 3,203 3 100 3 4,019 4 $2,312

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,900 2,824 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 17,700 3,089 100 3,257

Spouses and divorced spouses 142,300 1,158 500 1,074

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 78,600 1,951 400 2,453

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,108 6/ 1,081

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,000 1,325 100 1,412

Children 7,500 1,329 6/ 1,395

Other benefits 2,600 330 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 106,700 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 29); 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.

(Over)

.........

$1,127,728,000 $1,097,014,000

Social Security

.........

983 975

May 2021

.........

1,518 1,434

.........

.........

1,362 1,568

816 699

1,122 1,073

7/ 7/

Monthly benefits May 2022

Being paid

end of month

$1,668

Being Paid Awarded

Awarded in

month

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - May 2022

Average under

166,876,000 161,970,000

153,580,000 152,828,000

29,000,000 27,518,000

778,270,000 754,698,000
 Unemployment 1,100 $404 

 Sickness 4,000 404 

 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.

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

May 2022

$712 

701

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

Average payment1

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

Bureau of the Actuary and Research

Total

 - 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 May 2022 

 amount calculated for payment was $5,000 and the May 2022 amount was $12.9 million.

 4,268,000 

Benefit payments1

5,817,000 6,084,000 

May 2022 May 2021

$7,456,000 $10,351,000

1,638,000