Railroad Bosses: Comment on Your Quarterly Payment Forms Now
Published Date: 6/23/2025
Notice
Summary
The Railroad Retirement Board wants your thoughts on a form railroad employers use every quarter to report and pay unemployment and sickness contributions for their workers. They’re checking if the form is clear, useful, and not too much work, and they’re open to ideas for making it easier—especially with tech. This affects railroad employers and keeps the system running smoothly without extra costs or delays.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Quarterly Railroad Employer Report
If you are a railroad employer, you must complete RRB Form DC-1 (OMB 3220-0012) to report and remit quarterly unemployment and sickness contributions. The form can be filed manually or via the internet; completion is mandatory. The RRB estimates 720 responses on RRB.Gov and 1,750 on Pay.Gov (2,500 total) at 25 minutes per response, for a total annual burden of 1,042 hours.
Spouse Annuity Application Process
If you apply for a spouse annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act, you must complete Form AA-3 (AA-3cert or AA-3sum; OMB 3220-0042) to provide marital, work, other benefit, and Medicare information; completion is required to obtain the benefit. AA-3cert requires a pen-and-ink signature while AA-3sum documents an attestation signing method. The RRB estimates 3,960 ink-signature responses at 30 minutes (1,980 hours) and 2,710 attestation responses at 29 minutes (1,310 hours), for a total of 6,670 responses and 3,290 hours annually.
Supplemental Claimant Statement (G-93)
Form G-93 (OMB 3220-0183) is used voluntarily to provide supplemental or corrective statements for annuity or unemployment benefit claims under the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. The RRB estimates 400 annual responses at 15 minutes each for a total annual burden of 100 hours.
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