Benefit payments1 June 2021

Total

Retirement and Survivor Retired employees

Benefits, Including Spouses and divorced spouses

Supplemental Annuites Widow(er)s - aged and disabled

Other benefits

Number Average2 Number Average2

Total, regular annuities 498,700 ......... 1,700 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 250,700 $2,960 600 $3,091 .........

 Awarded age annuity 183,200 3,041 3 200 3 4,029 4 $2,180

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,500 2,672 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 19,000 2,921 200 3,158

Spouses and divorced spouses 144,800 1,106 600 1,020

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 80,600 1,874 400 2,434

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,021 6/ 1,786

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,100 1,230 6/ 1,383

Children 7,600 1,230 6/ 1,568

Other benefits 2,400 322 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 110,900 42 100 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); 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.

$1,097,086,000 $1,098,182,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - June 2021

755,800,000

162,121,000

152,099,000

Monthly benefits June 2021

27,066,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

June 2020

758,098,000

161,544,000

151,639,000

26,901,000

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

.........

.........

$1,555

.........

1,280 1,462

777 692

1,420 1,365

1,056 1,048

7/ 7/

(Over)

922 924

.........

.........
 Unemployment 2,500 $394 

 Sickness 4,100 395 

 Unemployment

 Sickness

1

 In accordance with the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, amounts reflect a 

 reduction of 6.6% under sequestration for days of unemployment and sickness after September 30, 2017, 6.2% for

 days after September 30, 2018, 5.9% for days after September 30, 2019, and 5.7% for days after September 30, 2020,

 and before January 3, 2021. Beginning January 3, 2021, under the Continued Assistance to Rail Workers Act of 2020,

 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)

June 2021

June 2021 June 2020

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

651

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

$722 

Benefit payments1

Total $10,531,000 $30,715,000

3,820,000 24,500,000 

6,711,000 6,215,000 

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). The June 2021 amount calculated for payment was $12.8 million, and the

June 2020 amount was $49 million.