Description: This excerpt from the 2001 Annual Report of the PBGC provides greater detail concerning the valuation of future benefits than is presented in the PBGC's annual report.

Description: This excerpt from the 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds presents the assumptions and methods underlying the actuarial estimates.

Description: This excerpt from the 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the intermediate assumptions. Also presented are the projections of program costs under the twp alternative sets of assumptions.

Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual report of the Boards of Trustees for the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds which describes the basic assumptions and methods used in the estimates under the intermediate assumptions. Also, presented are projections of program costs under two alternate sets if assumptions.

Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the intermediate assumptions. Also, projections of program costs are presented under two alternate sets of assumptions.

Description: Abstract of a paper examining the degree to which certain actuarial methods satisfy public pension plan funding objectives.

Description: Recent trends in mortality suggest that future gains in life expectancy will occur after age 80. This fact stresses the need and the importance to obtain precise measures of mortality at the highest ages, which are always subject to uncertainty due to misreporting of age at death.

Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds section which presents the assumptions and methods underlying the actuarial estimates.

Description: Centenarians persons living to age 100 and over represent a population that could be useful in identifying factors leading to long life and avoidance of fatal diseases. This study explores whether people living to 100 and beyond were any different from their peers at their middle age 30 years in terms of their physical characteristics height and body build, occupation and marital status.

Description: This paper presents a different approach to measuring Health Expectancy, especially as it relates to the elderly population. This new actuarial approach is described and numerous examples are given.