Federal Officials Seize Railroad Retirement Board Records In response to alleged disability-benefit abuses at the Long Island Railroad, federal officials seized nine file boxes and five personal computers in a Sept. 23 raid of the Long Island offices of the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) in Westbury, New York. A New York Times report claims that 93 percent to 97 percent of Long Island Railroad career employees in every year since 2000 have retired early and received disability benefits from the RRB. According to the report, “The retirement board almost never turns down a claim and since 2000 has paid more than a quarter of a billion dollars in disability checks to former Long Island Railroad workers.” The Railroad Retirement Board is an agency of the U.S. government created in 1935 to administer a program providing benefits to the nation’s railroad employees. In addition to Medicare for former railroad employees, the RRB administers retirement, survivor, unemployment and sickness benefits. Source: Railway Age
	The Soy Transportation Coalition is comprised of seven state soybean boards, the American Soybean Association, and the United Soybean Board. The National Grain and Feed Association and the National Oilseed Processors Association serve as ex-officio members of the organization.