Description: This session discussion is about the financial implications on social insurance, pensions and post-retirement health care. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: This session discussed: Emerging trends in government financing, availability and scope of public programs Medicare supplement products implications New opportunities for the private sector e.g., Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations Future Federal Insurance Contributions Act Tax. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1 San Francisco

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion of U.S. Social Security issues. Questions discussed included: 1. What is the financial status of the Social Security program? 2. What changes have been recently adopted and what changes have been proposed? 3. How would these changes affect the private pension system costs and plan design? 4. What is the proper role of the actuarial profession regarding the Social Security program? Included discussion of the paper, Constant Replacement Ratios in Retirement: A Theoretical Approach,' by Barnet N. Berin and Anthony B. Richter.

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.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about 1. Proposals to reorient Social Security to encourage later retirement, 2. The impact of later retirement on employers, employees, pension programs and insurers, 3. The desirability, practicality and equity of requiring later retirement, 4. The problems of funding disability-related early retirement, and 5. Alternative approaches to bringing the long-range benefits and revenues of Social Security into equilibrium.

Description: This document is a meeting session summary. The meeting occurred at the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The session compared and contrasted educational and experience requirements for actuaries and economists, costs of long range social insurance programs, costs of short range programs, economic analysis of the effects of social insurance programs and cooperation between the two professions to analyze social insurance programs.

Description: This article covers a session at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries. It addresses the following issues: how the Social Security system reached its present situation with respect to benefit levels and actuarial status, the problems in Social Security funding and with the Social Security system, the prospects for the Railroad Retirement system and the future of Social Security. 1975 Record Vol.1, No.3

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: This 1978 session on Social Security Funding included discussion on 1. Major Amendments, 2. Financing condition of Social Security after amendments, 3. Benefit levels, and 4. Possible future legislation.

Description: This session discussion is about current issues in U.S. social security and Medicare programs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.