Description: Discusses the projected costs of social insurance programs in the U.S. and Canada, the experience of the British National Health Service on controlling costs versus providing quality service, the economic consequences of the projected high costs of social insurance and of the projected build-up and spend-down of the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance [OASDI] Trust Funds, and possible solutions to the financing of these programs. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: A discussion of the similarities and differences in social security benefit design, indexation, and financing in Canada, the United States and other countries.

Description: Transcript of Session 3A from the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium discusses the use of mortality in social insurance systems in the US and Canada.

Description: Presented at Annual Meeting October 1986. Discusses: Reasonableness of cost projections in the 1986 OASDI Trustees Report, Possible policy alternatives in response to the higher cost projected for years after 2020, How to reduce the variability in cost trends due to economic and demographic changes, Financing implications of differences and similarities in cost trends between Social Security pensions and private pensions, paper, 'Components of Trends in Social Security Costs' by Francisco R. Bayo, Milton P. Glanz and Charles L. Trowbridge.

Description: Two letters to the editor of Pension Section News. Both letters are responses to David Langer's comments which were published in the January 2006 Pension Section News regarding Social Security and its financial projections. From Pension Section News, April 2006, No. 61.

Description: The presenters will provide an update of the Social Security Program’s financial status and discuss recent proposals for modifying the program.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a panel discussion that focused on retirement age issues, trends and assumptions related to pension plans. Also a discussion of factors that affect early retirement elections

Description: This presentation from Session 73 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses the emerging risks faced by Social Security, Medicare, and other public sector retirement plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses assumptions for pension valuation including rates of termination, retirement, disability and mortality. Also addressed is the SOA Pension Section Council's research on rates of termination and the new mortality tables. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Social Security poses a substantial financing challenge for the future, largely due to demographic changes. This article explores the reasons behind this issue and possible changes that will be needed in the future.