Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing whether or not the retirement age needs to be increased.

Description: This 1978 session focused on regulatory considerations in Group Health Insurance focused on the following questions: 1. What is the impact of National Health Insurance and Federal Hospital Cost Control? 2. What is the impact of non-discrimination legislation and regulation? 3. What is the impact of recent OASDI financing changes and changes in mandatory retirement age? 4. What is the future of multi-employer trusts and self-insurance?

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting addressed the impact of ERISA on pensions.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about 1. Proposals to reorient Social Security to encourage later retirement, 2. The impact of later retirement on employers, employees, pension programs and insurers, 3. The desirability, practicality and equity of requiring later retirement, 4. The problems of funding disability-related early retirement, and 5. Alternative approaches to bringing the long-range benefits and revenues of Social Security into equilibrium.

Description: This paper examines the problem of a growing net benefit reduction for working women who are entitled to benefits in their own right, as well as to benefits as surviving spouses of covered workers.

Description: Discusses the report of the fifth Advisory Council which provides recommendations for improving Social Security.

Description: Overview of SOA-sponsored seminars held in July 1978 in four cities to discuss current issues in the private sector relating to the new OASDI benefit formulas.

Description: History of different treatment of men and women under the rules of the U.S. Social Security program.

Description: This article from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20, identifies the participants and summarizes their comments. The discussion topics include proposed legislation to provide disability benefits under OASI, the proposal to lower the OASI retirement age for women from 65 to 62, the advantages and disadvantages of bringing the personnel of the U.S. armed forces under OASI, coverage of state and municipal employees, and developments in Canada.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 3 that illustrates the Social Security Bill H.R. 1 for beneficiaries already on the rolls and for people who will come onto the benefit rolls in the near future that the benefit increases provided by H.R. 1 would be equivalent to cost of living increases.