Benefit payments1 January 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 481,300 ......... 1,800 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 241,500 $3,350 500 $3,442 .........

 Awarded age annuity 177,600 3,435 3 200 3 4,583 4 $2,665

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,700 3,043 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 16,300 3,329 100 3,422

Spouses and divorced spouses 140,300 1,232 600 1,211

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 77,000 2,047 500 2,697

Widowed mothers and fathers 500 2,169 6/ 1,494

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,000 1,454 100 1,793

Children 7,300 1,450 6/ 1,822

Other survivors 2,700 340 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 103,500 42 100 40 .........

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); 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.

.........

$1,828

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - January 2023

Average under

167,158,000

$1,185,741,000 $1,131,659,000

Monthly benefits January 2023

January 2022

158,047,000 153,507,000

30,885,000 28,914,000

822,205,000 782,079,000

174,603,000

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

.........

Being Paid Awarded

(Over)

.........

1,661 1,704

.........

1,216 1,202

7/ 7/

1,069 1,074

.........

1,483 1,687

879 774
 Unemployment 1,300 $420 

 Sickness 4,300 421 

 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, 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 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.

 $9,413,000 $12,309,000 

Benefit payments1

January 2023 January 2022

7,406,000 8,368,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

January 2023

$752 

744

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

Average payment1

2,007,000 3,940,000

Total

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. There is no

current activity. The January 2022 amount was $0.02 million.