Benefit payments1 October 2021

Total

Retirement and Survivor Retired employees R

Benefits, Including Spouses and divorced spouses R

Supplemental Annuites Widow(er)s - aged and disabled R

Other benefits R

Number Average2 Number Average2

Total, regular annuities 496,400 ......... 1,900 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 249,400 $2,968 700 $3,191 .........

 Awarded age annuity 182,400 3,049 3 200 3 4,082 4 $2,138

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,600 2,679 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 18,400 2,931 200 3,222

Spouses and divorced spouses 144,200 1,108 600 1,076

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 80,100 1,894 500 2,481

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,053 6/ 1,944

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,200 1,238 100 1,448

Children 7,500 1,238 100 1,625

Other benefits 2,500 321 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 109,500 42 100 40 .........

R : Revised numbers

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 33); 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.

$1,092,240,000 $1,093,375,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - October 2021

October 2020

751,588,000 753,823,000

161,864,000 161,729,000

151,622,000 151,154,000

Monthly benefits October 2021

27,165,000 26,669,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

.........

.........

$1,563

.........

1,282 1,481

776 673

1,425 1,368

1,066 1,063

7/ 7/

(Over)

922 945

.........

.........
 Unemployment 2,700 $403 

 Sickness 5,700 405 

 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, 2018, 5.9% for

 days 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.

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. The October 2021

amount calculated for payment was $0.6 million and the October 2020 amount was $1.6 million.

3,928,000 12,726,000 

7,839,000 7,649,000 

Benefit payments1

Total $11,767,000 $20,375,000

October 2021 October 2020

$718 

705

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)

October 2021

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits