Benefit payments1 March 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 491,000 ......... 1,900 ......... .........

Regular employee annuities, total 246,500 $3,118 700 $3,270 .........

 Awarded age annuity 180,700 3,200 3 200 3 4,134 4 $2,594

 Disability converted to age annuity5 48,100 2,820 ......... ......... .........

 Disability 17,700 3,086 200 3,356

Spouses and divorced spouses 142,700 1,158 700 1,047

Widow(er)s--aged and disabled 79,100 1,941 500 2,427

Widowed mothers and fathers 600 2,093 6/ 1,738

Widow(er)s--remarried and divorced 12,100 1,321 100 1,219

Children 7,500 1,325 6/ 1,616

Other benefits 2,600 327 ......... ......... .........

Employee supplemental annuities8 107,400 41 100 38 .........

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); 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)

983 1,000

.........

.........

1,516 1,446

1,119 1,114

7/ 7/

.........

1,360 $1,560

819 700

.........

.........

$1,665

Being Paid Awarded

Monthly benefits March 2022

29,019,000 27,408,000

Average under

Being paid

end of month

Awarded in

month

Social Security

780,731,000 755,616,000

167,338,000 162,198,000

153,465,000 151,886,000

$1,130,555,000 $1,097,107,000

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - March 2022

March 2021
 Unemployment 2,100 $402 

 Sickness 5,100 405 

 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.

Benefits and Beneficiaries Under the Railroad Retirement 

and Unemployment Insurance Systems - (Continued)

March 2022 

Unemployment and Sickness Benefits

731

Average payment1

Number of beneficiaries

during month

Per 2-week

registration period

Per

full week

March 2022 March 2021

$721 

Benefit payments1

8,778,000 9,053,000

Total $12,187,000 $18,941,000

3,409,000 9,888,000

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 March 2022

amount calculated for payment was less than $0.04 million and the March 2021 amount was $15.0 million.