Description: This session discussion is about personal risk and social responsibility. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1

Description: This document is a meeting session summary. The meeting occurred at the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The session compared and contrasted educational and experience requirements for actuaries and economists, costs of long range social insurance programs, costs of short range programs, economic analysis of the effects of social insurance programs and cooperation between the two professions to analyze social insurance programs.

Description: As we entered 2014, actuaries became familiar with three risk stabilizing mechanisms in the early years of the ACA marketplaces, colloquially known as 'the 3Rs'. As we enter 2024, there is renewed focus on rating compliance and risk adjustment. Speakers will highlight pricing considerations when determining cost-sharing reduction premium loads as well as related issues pertaining to risk adjustment and metal tier pricing.

Description: It is the purpose of this paper to fill in this gap in connection with the methods developed for analyzing the costs of one of the largest pension plans in the country Railroad Retirement program. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) benefits have expanded rapidly in recent years as an increasing number of states have required employers to provide these benefits to their employees. Examine recent developments in PFML benefits, for example, the presenters will provide information on which states are introducing or considering PFML programs, what types of benefits are provided, what types of data is available to monitor experience, and what challenges programs have encountered.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] two American Council of Life Insurance [ACLI] studies, one covering U.S. programs and the other covering Canadian programs, [2] characteristics and attitudes of Americans aged 50 to 64, [3] older baby boomers as potential customers, and [4] long-range consequences of baby boomers on social insurance programs. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: Article The 1979 Annual Report of the Trustees Of the U.S. Social Security Programs by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Retirement planning generally includes a focus on decisions needed at time of retirement, but it often fails to focus on changes during retirement and additional decisions needed as people age. The 2021 SOA Risk Survey and other SOA research documents the lack of focus on future change. It is common for people to lose cognitive ability and generally to become less able to make decisions, manage their finances, their medical care and their lives at high ages.This panel focuses on communication and decision issues. The SOA has recently issued a decision guide on High Age Decisions. The brief identifies four domains for high age decisions: ·Health, health care and staying healthy ·Managing finances ·Housing and transportation ·Support networks The panel will include a discussion of communications and how we change, problems of physical, hearing, sight or cognitive decline and the challenges created and the four domains in the SOA Decision Brief.

Description: This paper examines how the costs in Canada of life insurance, medical care, disability, and retirement are impacted by increases in longevity. The paper then examines possible courses that policy action may take, and then proposes directions that employers may take in designing employee benefit programs.

Description: This is a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the SOA Research Institute (SOARI) seeking research studies related to anxiety, depression, and their impact on mortality in the United States.