In Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) certification cases (RR Cert), SSA is responsible for releasing an award notice to the beneficiary. The award notice informs the beneficiary:

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  that the RRB will issue Social Security payments, and

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  of the entitlement date and the benefit amount under the Social Security Act, and

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  to report any events that would affect receipt of Social Security benefits to either a SSA or RRB district office. You can see the system’s generated notice language, in NL 00720.315.

For a subsequent award, we will send award notices to newly entitled beneficiaries, and adjustment notices to previously entitled non-RR Cert beneficiaries. However, RRB will send adjustment notices to previously entitled RR Cert beneficiaries.