RRB Q&A Release – RRB Reports Performance Under Customer Service Plan
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board’s Customer Service Plan promotes the principles and objectives of customer-driven quality service agency-wide. The RRB’s plan lays out the standards and expresses the...
View ArticleAll New Railroad Retirement Board Members Sworn In
President Donald J. Trump has appointed Erhard R. Chorlé to be the Chairman of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Johnathan D. Bragg to be the Labor Member, and Thomas R. Jayne to be the Carrier...
View ArticleLitigation Update – Payment for Time Lost Due to an On-the-job Injury is...
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its decision in BNSF v. Loos. In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Ginsburg, the Court found that a railroad’s payment to an employee as pay for time lost due to an...
View ArticleRRB Q&A: Longevity of Railroad Retirement Beneficiaries
Every three years, the Railroad Retirement Board’s (RRB) Chief Actuary conducts a study of the longevity of its annuitants, as part of a valuation of future revenues and benefit payments. Click here to...
View ArticleRRB Release – Comparison of Benefits Under Railroad Retirement and Social...
Employers and employees covered by the Railroad Retirement Act pay higher retirement taxes than those covered by the Social Security Act, so that railroad retirement benefits remain higher than social...
View ArticleNRRIT QUARTERLY UPDATE FOR THE PERIOD ENDING MARCH 31, 2019
The National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust (the “Trust”) issues a Quarterly Update to provide current information on the Trust’s operations and activities relating to its investment operations....
View ArticleRRB Release – Medicare for Railroad Families
The Federal Medicare program provides hospital and medical insurance protection for railroad retirement annuitants and their families, just as it does for social security beneficiaries. Medicare has...
View ArticleRRB Issues Statements of Service
Each year, the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) prepares a Certificate of Service Months and Compensation (Form BA-6) for every railroad employee with creditable railroad compensation in the...
View ArticleRail Labor and Management Continue Calls For Increased Funding For Railroad...
A joint letter was written to Congress from the Rail Labor Division (RLD) of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) of which TCU is a member and the Association of American Railroads...
View ArticleRRB Release – Railroad Retiree Earnings Limits Increase in 2020
In a release from the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB): Railroad retirement annuitants subject to earnings restrictions can earn more in 2020 without having their benefits reduced as a result of...
View ArticleRRB Release – Self- service Options Available to RRB Customers
Members can request the following documents and get the following information online by visiting myRRB or by using the automated menus on the toll-free number (877-772-5772): • Letters verifying income...
View ArticleRailroad Retirement Board Closes Field Offices to Public
On March 13, the President declared the COVID-19 virus outbreak a national emergency. While U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) employees continue to work both on-site and remotely, out of an...
View ArticleRRB – Spring Pre-Retirement Seminars Canceled
Based on the best information currently available and guidance issued by public health officials, the Office of the Labor Member of the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has canceled all Pre-Retirement...
View ArticleMessage from the Labor Member of the Railroad Retirement Board, John Bragg –...
Message from the Labor Member of the Railroad Retirement Board, John Bragg The purpose of this notice is to update you on how COVID-19 is impacting operations at the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)....
View ArticleRRB Release – Coronavirus Relief Act Impacts Railroad Workers
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, signed into law by President Trump on March 27, boosts unemployment and sickness benefits for railroad workers impacted by the...
View ArticleRRB Release – COVID-19 Impacting Railroad Retirement and Sickness Benefits
Based on the recent environment surrounding the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, issues are arising where railroad employees are being encouraged or requested to “voluntarily quarantine,” and/or...
View ArticleRRB Release – IRS Special Alert for RRB Benefit Recipients Who Don’t File a...
The Internal Revenue Service issued a special alert for several groups of federal benefit recipients, including Railroad Retirement recipients, to act by this Wednesday, April 22, if they did not file...
View ArticleRRB Labor Member: Enhanced Benefit Payments Expected by End of May
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, recently signed into law by President Trump, authorized extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for railroad workers...
View ArticleRRB Labor Member: Testing Underway, Enhanced Benefit Payments Expected Before...
A message from John Bragg, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) labor member, released on May 21st, stated that the increased $1,200 in unemployment benefits from the CARES Act will begin to be...
View ArticleRRB Begins Paying CARES Act Recovery Payments for Unemployed Rail Workers
The RRB announces that the $1,200 per 2-week registration benefit period as provided under the CARES Act began issuing payments to members who filed unemployment claims on April 1 or later. The RRB...
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