Benefit payments1 November 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 495,600 ......... 1,800 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 249,000 $2,970 600 $3,075 .........

 Awarded age annuity 182,200 3,051 3 200 3 4,038 4 $2,123

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,600 2,682 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 18,200 2,934 100 3,227

Spouses and divorced spouses 143,900 1,109 600 1,061

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 79,900 1,899 500 2,481

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,056 6/ 1,554

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,200 1,241 100 1,530

Children 7,500 1,243 6/ 1,687

Other benefits 2,500 322 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 109,100 42 100 39 .........

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 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.

(Over)

923 946

.........

.........

1,426 1,366

1,066 1,071

7/ 7/

.........

1,282 1,479

775 660

.........

.........

$1,564

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

Being Paid Awarded

Monthly benefits November 2021

27,097,000 26,841,000

752,250,000 754,770,000

162,431,000 161,503,000

152,131,000 151,820,000

$1,093,908,000 $1,094,934,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - November 2021

November 2020
 Unemployment 2,600 $403 

 Sickness 5,500 406 

 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.

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

November 2021

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

728

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

November 2021 November 2020

$754 

Benefit payments1

Total $11,956,000 $18,352,000

4,017,000 11,058,000 

7,939,000 7,294,000 

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), 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

November 2021 amount calculated for payment was $0.2 million and the November 2020 amount was

$1.4 million.