The request for a hearing must be made in writing and filed at a Social Security Administration or Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services office, or in the case of a qualified Railroad Retirement beneficiary, at a
Railroad Retirement Board office.
Employees who worked for two or more railroads in a year, or who had tier I taxes withheld from their
Railroad Retirement Board sickness insurance benefits in addition to their railroad earnings, may be eligible for a tax credit or refund of any excess tier I or tier II railroad retirement taxes withheld.
Railroad Retirement Board Tier II Taxes and Benefits [Billions of dollars except as noted] 2000 2001 2002 Receipts from payroll taxes 2.9 2.8 2.7 Employer portion of payroll taxes 2.3 2.2 2.1 Investment income on assets of Railroad Retirement Account and National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust 1.3 2.0 1.9 Benefit payments 3.0 3.0 3.2 Net of employee portion of payroll tax 2.3 2.3 2.6 Railroad Retirement Account balance 17.0 18.9 18.6 National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust balance 0.0 0.0 1.4 Holding gains on assets of National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust n.a.
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has been described elsewhere (Garshick et al.
To qualify for Medicare on the basis of kidney failure, you must need regular dialysis or have had a kidney transplant, and you must have worked under Social Security, the
Railroad Retirement Board, or as a government employee (or be the child or spouse of someone who has), or you must already be receiving Social Security or Railroad Retirement benefits.
All individuals are subject to at least 6.2% of their income earnings up to $72,000 in Social Security or
Railroad Retirement Board Tier I payroll taxes and 1.45% of all of their earnings in Medicare taxes.
Agencies already moved in include the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
Railroad Retirement Board, National Labor Relations Board, Social Security Administration, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, among others.
PRR-Hagley, Legal Department, box 23, folder "8827
Railroad Retirement Board - Pension Statistics 1931 (8)." These patterns differed sharply from those of the working population as a whole; in these distributions, male workers reached peak annual incomes in their 30s.
"The letters come in waves,' said Bill Poulous, a spokesman for the
Railroad Retirement Board. Another rumor claims that the railroad pension funds paid for the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees.
In addition, the advisory boards of other government entities with retirement-related responsibilities--such as the Social Security Administration, the
Railroad Retirement Board, and the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board--provide reports to their overseeing bodies.
Railroad Retirement Board, and ascertained mortality using
Railroad Retirement Board, Social Security, and Health Care Financing Administration records.