Description: Presidential column about cooperation amongst the various actuarial organizations.

Description: Letter from the president. After a long, but gratifying, six-year journey, the SOA’s basic education restructuring is now fully implemented. Basic education (i.e., through FSA) now reflects a sound, solid continuum.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses fifty years of Social Security and the role of actuaries, recruitment sources and problems, remuneration, functions of actuarial staff, problems of staff retention, political pressures, opportunities to influence national legislation.

Description: This article introduces the special rules that apply to employees of state and local governments that choose to be covered by the U.S. Social Security program.

Description: Join fellow actuaries for breakfast co-sponsored by the Actuary of the Future and Social Insurance & Public Finance Sections. Come learn what the sections have accomplished over the past year and network with other section members. This breakfast is open to all meeting attendees free of charge. If you plan to attend, you must register in advance.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss Congressional proposals for changing Medicare and the Academy's Medicare Reform Task Force report with respect to financial soundness, competition and potential prescription drug benefits.

Description: This paper discusses social insurance supplement - SIS insurance which is a disability income policy rider that pays an additional benefit on disability if the insured is not receiving benefits from a social program. It provides one possible framework for the actuarial structure of the product. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This is an article about the many benefits of actively volunteering and the importance of investing one's time to grow the actuarial profession.

Description: Description of Social Security COLA for December 2020 and wage-indexed program parameters for 2021.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting examines the Social Security Amendments of 1983 including benefits vs. taxes over a worker's lifetime, implications of Social Security changes for employee benefit plans and compensation arrangements. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.