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Vision

Vision

 

The RRB will continue to be customer-focused, quality-driven, and fiscally responsible. While our overall mission and responsibilities will remain unchanged, we will use creativity, innovation and technology to deliver best-in-class service in a cost-effective, efficient manner. As a result, our customers will have a broad range of choices for conducting their business with the agency, including more online, web-based options that will allow for secure transactions from remote locations.

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Mission Statement

Mission Statement

 

The RRB's mission is to administer retirement/survivor and unemployment/sickness insurance benefit programs for railroad workers and their families under the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA). These programs provide income protection during old age and in the event of disability, death or temporary unemployment and sickness. The RRB also administers aspects of the Medicare program and has administrative responsibilities under the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code.

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Office of Inspector General

Office of Inspector General

 

The RRB's Office of Inspector General is responsible for promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness; and for identifying and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in agency programs. The Office of Inspector General conducts audits, investigations, and management reviews of agency operations.

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Program Integrity

Program Integrity

 

Railroad employees, by and large, are honest and law-abiding, but any large group may include a few persons who either deliberately or through lack of knowledge seek benefits to which they are not entitled. Various procedures for detecting and discouraging such actions include reviews of employer records for work on days claimed as days of unemployment or sickness and checks with State agencies to detect duplication of benefit payments. The RRB has wage matching agreements with all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to cover the entire rail population.

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Keeping Beneficiaries Informed

Keeping Beneficiaries Informed

 

The RRB conducts informational programs to keep railroad employees informed of their benefit rights and responsibilities under the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts, with emphasis on the necessity of prompt application for benefits. Yet cases still occur in which qualified railroad employees or their family members forfeit benefits either because they do not know that these benefits are available or because they are unaware of the steps they themselves must take to claim them.

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Administrative Relationships

Administrative Relationships

 

Relations Between the RRB and Other Agencies

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Administration of the Railroad Retirement System

Administration of the Railroad Retirement System

 

The railroad retirement system is based on three Federal laws: the Railroad Retirement Act, the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and the Railroad Retirement Tax Act. The first two of these Acts are administered by the Railroad Retirement Board, and the third by the Internal Revenue Service of the U.S. Treasury. The RRB also participates in the administration of the Federal Medicare health insurance program.

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Financial Report

Financial Report

 

FINANCIAL REPORT

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Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account

 

Railroad unemployment insurance funds not needed immediately for the payment of benefits are deposited in the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account maintained by the Treasury. This account, together with similar accounts for each State, forms a national unemployment trust fund. Deposits in the unemployment trust fund are invested by the Treasury in securities of the U.S. Government.

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Contributions

Contributions

 

The railroad unemployment and sickness benefit programs are financed exclusively by contributions of railroad employers, based on the taxable earnings of their employees. The employees themselves do not contribute. In calendar year 2017, the taxable earnings base is the first $1,545 of each employee's monthly earnings. The earnings base is indexed each year by a rate which is equal to approximately two-thirds of the annual rate of increase in the maximum base for railroad retirement tier I taxes.

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