Benefit payments1 July 2022

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 487,700 ......... 1,900 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 244,900 $3,126 700 $3,270 .........

 Awarded age annuity 179,700 3,208 3 300 3 3,982 4 $2,319

 Disability converted to age annuity5 47,800 2,828 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 17,400 3,092 100 3,230

Spouses and divorced spouses 141,900 1,160 700 1,097

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 78,300 1,961 400 2,650

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,115 6/ 2,374

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,100 1,330 100 1,599

Children 7,300 1,326 6/ 1,894

Other benefits 2,600 333 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 105,900 41 100 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 31); some 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.

$1,131,989,000 $1,096,758,000

781,931,000 755,173,000

167,464,000 162,007,000

153,924,000 152,511,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - July 2022

July 2021

Monthly benefits July 2022

28,671,000 27,067,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

.........

.........

$1,671

.........

1,362 1,560

814 699

1,520 1,455

1,134 1,102

7/ 7/

(Over)

980 956

.........

.........
 Unemployment 1,000 $408 

 Sickness 4,000 409 

 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. There is no 

 current activity. The July 2021 amount was $11.7 million.

1,283,000 2,979,000 

5,998,000 6,984,000 

Total $7,281,000 $9,962,000

Per

full week

July 2022 July 2021

$681 

Benefit payments1

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

July 2022

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

717

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period