Thanks, Arturo,
I will give the RRB a try.
Emilie
—– Original Message —–
From: arturoramos
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:11 AM
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Railroad records
Emilie, et al:
Your inquiries have me thinking here… The freight railroads are one of our principal clients here and when I first started working for my firm we were finalizing the privatization of the railroad retirement system. I worked on that quite a bit and am pretty familiar with it all.
Basically railroad workers are exempt from social security taxes because the railroad retirement system predates social security (much like teacher pension plans in many states). The Railroad Retirement Board manages calculations of benefits and disbursement of funds even though the money is now manages by a non-governmental trust.
Given that the RRB is a government agency, I imagine they are required to release information through a Freedom of Information Act request similar to the way one can obain social security records from the Social Security Administration for deceased individuals. That may be worth a try because I know that the RRB would have to have pretty detailed employment records for its beneficiaries in order to do their benefit calculations.
Thanks, Arturo,
I will give the RRB a try.
Emilie
—– Original Message —–
From: arturoramos
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:11 AM
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Railroad records
Emilie, et al:
Your inquiries have me thinking here… The freight railroads are one of our principal clients here and when I first started working for my firm we were finalizing the privatization of the railroad retirement system. I worked on that quite a bit and am pretty familiar with it all.
Basically railroad workers are exempt from social security taxes because the railroad retirement system predates social security (much like teacher pension plans in many states). The Railroad Retirement Board manages calculations of benefits and disbursement of funds even though the money is now manages by a non-governmental trust.
Given that the RRB is a government agency, I imagine they are required to release information through a Freedom of Information Act request similar to the way one can obain social security records from the Social Security Administration for deceased individuals. That may be worth a try because I know that the RRB would have to have pretty detailed employment records for its beneficiaries in order to do their benefit calculations.
