Executive Summary. Recent legislation authorized the Department of General Services (DGS) to sell and then lease back 11 stateâowned office properties. The saleâleaseback is designed to free up the stateâs equity in the buildings to provide oneâtime revenue for addressing the stateâs current budgetary shortfall.
Our Virginia railroad injury / disease law firm has been representing railroad workers ( transport workers such as engineers , switchman , conductors ) who claim various health illnesses including cancer as a result of being exposed to radioactive substances moved by railroads in and out of a nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment nuclear plants / ...
The board also runs an unemployment program to assist railroad employees unable to work due to illness or injury. During FY 2010, the RRB paid almost $10.8 billion in retirement benefits to 582,000 beneficiaries and another $160 million in unemployment/sickness benefits to more than 38,000 claimants. The average annuity paid to retired rail employees was almost $2,215 a month.