March 8, 2024 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Trains.com, March 6, 2024) The Senate Budget Committee has unanimously voted to advance a bill that would permanently exempt railroad workers’ unemployment and sickness insurance benefits from sequestration cuts, and end current cuts. Industry and labor...
March 7, 2024 | Legislation, News, Railroad Retirement, Take Action
A BLET-backed bill currently making its way through the United States Senate would restore full unemployment and sickness benefits to all railroad workers. For more than 10 years now, individual railroad workers have unfairly had these benefits reduced by about $200...
February 23, 2024 | News, Railroad Retirement
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has announced its schedule of Pre-Retirement Seminars for Spring 2024. This popular program is a valuable resource for railroad workers, and advance on-line registration is required for those wishing to attend. Click here for...
January 3, 2024 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, January 3, 2024) Railroad retirement annuitants are responsible for notifying the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) of certain events and activities that can affect the payment of their annuities. If not reported to an...
December 8, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, December 1, 2023) Persons claiming retirement, disability, or survivor annuities or unemployment or sickness benefits from the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) have the right to appeal unfavorable determinations on...
November 17, 2023 | News, Railroad Retirement
BLET stands with Bragg: From left: BLET National President Eddie Hall, Labor Member of the RRB John Bragg, BLET First Vice President Mark Wallace and BLET National S-T David Estes _____________________ In a November 13 letter to President Joe Biden, all 13 rail labor...
November 8, 2023 | News, Railroad Retirement
Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will increase in January 2024. Cost-of-living increases are calculated in both the tier I and tier II portions of a railroad retirement annuity. The tier I portion, like social security benefits, will...
October 25, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 18, 2023) CHICAGO — Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will increase in January 2024 due to a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third quarter of 2022 to the...
October 25, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 18, 2023) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement annuitants subject to earnings restrictions can earn more in 2024 without having their benefits reduced due to increased limits indexed to average national wage...
October 13, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 2, 2023) The payment of a railroad retirement annuity can be affected by entitlement to social security benefits, as well as certain other government benefits. Such dual entitlement, if not reported to the...
