Benefit payments1 September 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 475,900 ......... 1,600 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 239,000 $3,365 600 $3,515 .........

 Awarded age annuity 176,100 3,448 3 200 3 4,384 4 $2,513

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,100 3,058 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 15,800 3,349 100 3,594

Spouses and divorced spouses 138,800 1,233 500 1,144

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 75,700 2,089 400 2,800

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,245 6/ 987

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 11,900 1,468 100 1,672

Children 7,000 1,448 6/ 1,697

Other survivors 2,900 341 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 100,800 41 6/ 39 .........

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); 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)

1,067 1,051

.........

.........

1,671 1,571

1,242 1,215

7/ 7/

.........

1,487 1,671

867 720

.........

.........

$1,841

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

Monthly benefits September 2023

30,382,000 28,873,000

816,439,000 776,279,000

173,384,000 166,737,000

158,280,000 153,860,000

$1,178,484,000 $1,125,751,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - September 2023

September 2022
 Unemployment 1,000 $405 

 Sickness 3,500 405 

 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.

Published by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

Bureau of the Actuary and Research

1,562,000 1,676,000 

5,650,000 7,594,000 

Benefit payments1

Total $7,212,000 $9,270,000

September 2023 September 2022

$744 

741

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

September 2023

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits