Description: Article Retirement To Chaos by Smith in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: An interview with Jennifer Gillespie, chairperson of SOA Public Policy Strategy Task Force.

Description: This article is about Ron Gebhardtsbauer, senior pension fellow for the American Academy of Actuaries, filling in for U.S. President Bill Clinton at a December 1998 White House Conference on Social Security. Gebhardtsbauer moderated a one-and-a-half-hour discussion that was carried live on the nationwide C-SPAN 2 network.

Description: This article is about the passing of Christopher Wright, a great -grandson of the noted 19th century American actuary Elizur Wright.

Description: The article notes, as explained in Norman Solomon’s paper, TSA XV, 167, so-called windfall appropriations are required annually to finance dual benefits to which certain railroad workers became eligible under the Railroad Retirement Act in consequence of pre-1975 employment that entitled them to both Railroad Retirement and Social Security benefits. The author then notes that the Office of Management and Budget has arbitrarily reduced revised appropriations, and that “the actuarial profession should take a strong stand against this by-passing of actuarial determinations.”

Description: A review of a pamphlet which described the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1977.

Description: An article about the government needing insight in public policy issues and is looking to actuaries as professionals who can help.

Description: Discusses a proposal that Social Security retirement benefits should be adjusted according to a special cost-of-living index based upon retirees spending habits rather than the familiar CPI.

Description: The Society of Actuaries, the SOA Pension Section, the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and the American Society of Pension Actuaries are contributing funds in support of efforts to get the actuarial profession more involved in modeling that addresses national retirement income policy and health care reform. The first project will be a feasibility study to analyze each major existing database/model and investigate whether it would be practical to access it or to extend it into a new macrodemographic model.

Description: Continues actuarial discussion on the book Social Security: Perspectives for Reform.