February 18, 2021 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, February 10, 2021) CHICAGO — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has developed two changes to the agency’s nationwide toll-free telephone system that should improve customers’ access to agency staff and services....
February 18, 2021 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, February 16, 2021) CHICAGO — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has appointed Nancy L. Bitzer as Director of Human Resources, effective January 31, 2021. In this position, Ms. Bitzer is responsible for...
December 11, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 30, 2020) CHICAGO — Unless certain exemption requirements are met, Railroad Retirement Act spouse and widow(er)s’ annuities (including divorced spouse, surviving divorced spouse, and remarried widow(er)s’...
December 11, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, November 30, 2020) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement beneficiaries are reminded that receipt of a private railroad pension may reduce the amount of a supplemental annuity payable by the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). The...
November 25, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 30, 2020) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement annuitants subject to earnings restrictions can earn more in 2021 without having their benefits reduced as a result of increases in earnings limits indexed to average...
November 25, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 30, 2020) CHICAGO — Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will increase in January 2021 due to a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third quarter of 2019 to the...
November 3, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, September 30, 2020) CHICAGO — Under the Budget Control Act of 2011, and a subsequent sequestration order to implement mandated cuts, railroad unemployment and sickness insurance benefits are reduced by a set percentage...
October 30, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: SCOTUS Blog, October 29, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The court will hear argument on Monday, Nov. 2, in Salinas v. U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, a case involving two of these statutes, the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act,...
October 7, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, September 15, 2020) CHICAGO — As required by law, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) submits annual reports to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement and railroad unemployment insurance...
October 7, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, September 30, 2020) CHICAGO — Daniel J. Bartnicki has been named an attorney-advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), Erhard R. Chorlé. At the time of his appointment, Mr. Bartnicki was the...
