Benefit payments1 May 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 478,400 ......... 1,400 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 240,200 $3,357 500 $3,339 .........

 Awarded age annuity 176,800 3,441 3 100 3 4,440 4 $2,780

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,400 3,051 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 16,000 3,341 100 3,714

Spouses and divorced spouses 139,300 1,233 400 1,107

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 76,400 2,070 400 2,727

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,220 6/ 1,753

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,000 1,463 100 1,704

Children 7,200 1,454 6/ 1,811

Other survivors 2,800 342 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 102,100 41 6/ 38 .........

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); 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)

.........

$1,182,636,000 $1,127,728,000

Social Security

.........

1,071 1,044

May 2022

.........

1,667 1,585

.........

.........

1,485 1,681

874 740

1,224 1,189

7/ 7/

Monthly benefits May 2023

Being paid

end of month

$1,836

Being Paid Awarded

Awarded in

month

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - May 2023

Average under

174,013,000 166,876,000

158,283,000 153,580,000

31,330,000 29,000,000

819,011,000 778,270,000
 Unemployment 800 $416 

 Sickness 3,200 417 

 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.

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

May 2023

$734 

725

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. There is

no current activity. The May 2022 amount was $5,000.

 1,638,000 

Benefit payments1

5,109,000 5,817,000 

May 2023 May 2022

$6,361,000 $7,456,000

1,252,000