What is the Railroad Retirement Board?

So the Railroad Retirement Board, the RRB, is essentially a quasi-governmental entity. So what that means is it’s like social security for railroad workers. So it’s the United States Railroad Retirement Board. Sometimes workers don’t know exactly how the benefits work ’cause they haven’t had to tap into it. But the RRB does a lot of important things, including permanent disability pensions, which are unusual in the railroad context; different than regular social security. And they also cover short-term disability benefits. So if a person gets hurt working on the railroad, through the RRB, we can get them short-term disability benefits to keep them and their family afloat while we’re working on the case and they’re getting better.