Retirement, Survivor & Disability Information
Information about retirement and disability annuities for railroad employees and the benefits available to their spouses and survivors
Employee Regular & Disability Benefit Information
- Computing an Employee Annuity
- General Information - Employee
- How Earnings Affect Payment of Retirement Annuities
- Who is Eligible for a Railroad Retirement Annuity
- Current Connection
Spouse & Divorced Spouse Benefit Information
Survivor Benefit Information
- Computing a Survivor Annuity
- General Information - Survivor
- Events that Affect a Survivor Annuity
- Widow(er)/Surviving Divorced Spouse Benefit
Earnings Limits, Tax Rates, & COLAs
- Cost of Living Increase
- National Average Wage Index
- Maximum Taxable Railroad Earnings
- Retirement Earnings Test Exempt Amounts
Creditable Railroad Service Months & Compensation
Miscellaneous
- Duties of a Representative Payee (receiving benefits for someone else)
- Direct Deposit of Your Benefits
- Filing Proof Documents for Retirement and Survivor Benefits
- Monthly Benefit Payment Dates
- Partition of Annuities by Court Decree
- Railroad Retirement & Survivors' Improvement Act
- Residents of a Foreign Country
- RRB Appeals Procedure