Railroad Retirement claim numbers are similar to Social Security claim numbers, however Railroad Retirement numbers have prefixes rather than suffixes. A Railroad Retirement number consists of 6 or 9 digits immediately after the prefix. There are no spaces or hyphens between the prefix and the number.
| PREFIX | DESCRIPTION |
| A | Retirement – employee or annuitant |
| H | Railroad pensioner (age or disability) |
| MA | Spouse or railroad employee or annuitant |
| MH | Spouse or railroad pensioner |
| WCA | Widow of annuitant with a child in her care |
| WCD | Child of railroad employee or widow of employee with a child in her care |
| CA | Disabled adult child of railroad annuitant |
| WD | Widow or widower of a railroad employee |
| WA | Widow or widower of a railroad annuitant |
| WH | Widow or widower of a railroad pensioner |
| WCH | Widow of pensioner with a child in her care |
| PD | Parent of railroad employee |
| PA | Parent of railroad annuitant |
| PH | Parent of railroad pensioner |
| JA | Survivor joint annuitant. An annuitant who has taken a reduced amount to guarantee payments to a surviving spouse. |
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