What Years are Reported on Form AA-12?
Form AA-12 may be used to report service and compensation for the current year, prior year, or both prior and current year’s service and compensation. For example, if an employee worked through January 22, 2005 and then died; Form AA-12 would cover years 2004 and 2005. Form AA-12 would include all service and compensation not yet reported to the RRB for both years because the 2004 annual report is not due to the RRB until the last day of February 2005. AA-12 Reports are Interim Reports The information on Form AA-12 is considered to be “Lag” service and compensation because it has not been posted to the employee’s master service and compensation record at the RRB. Lag is the time between the last month for which service and compensation has been reported to the RRB and, if it is later, the employee’s date last worked. The period from January of the current year through the date last worked is always a lag period because the “annual” report of this information is not due to the RRB until
