Description: This is a panel discussion session on social insurance topics focusing on the short and long term financing issues of Social Security, the issue of general revenue financing, and proposals to revise benefit structures. Both U.S. and Canadian systems are discussed.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to examine how an actual fund, for any given contribution rate, would develop as a proportion of the full fund in a social insurance program. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.