This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Railroad Retirement Activity Transaction Set (429) within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set provides the sender with the capability to transmit information pertaining to the processing of railroad employee sickness and unemployment benefit claims against retirement funds. This transaction set will support the transfer of claim information from the Retirement Board to carriers as well as supporting corresponding response from a carrier to the Retirement Board.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
To communicate information (from the United States Railroad Retirement Board to the employing carrier) pertinent to the processing of retirement claims
To communicate information (from the employing carrier to the United States Railroad Retirement Board) pertinent to the processing of retirement claims
To communicate employing carrier response to a sickness or unemployment claim
To transmit information in a free-form format, if necessary, for comment or special instruction
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments)
