Description: This article, excerpted with permission from the author’s presentation at Open Forum One in Quebec City, describes the Carter Administration’s financing proposals for the Social Security trust funds, released at the same time as the 1977 Trustees Reports. The Administration proposal in total is rather complex and defies a simple explanation but there are basically eight major provisions, which the author discusses in this article.

Description: The Social Security retirement test based upon earnings.

Description: Letter from the editor discussing the articles in the June issue of In The Public Interest.

Description: Summary of Social Security's automatic adjustments in benefits and other amounts taking effect at the beginning of 2014.

Description: The author proposes an adjustment to the automatic benefit increase formula to reflect discrepancies between the CPI and wage inflation.

Description: The article presents descriptions of the July, 2015, newsletter articles, and the author suggests topics where future articles are welcome.

Description: This article encourages pension actuaries to read a 16-page paper, available on the Internet from the National Commission on Retirement Policy, regarding the challenges of the next decade on how to put federal programs for senior citizens on a sound financial footing.

Description: This article shows the detailed calculation of the PIA for maximum earners who retire in January 1998. From Pension Section News, April 1998, Issue No. 36.

Description: Article from The Actuary October 1992 – Volume 26, No. 08 is a book review of Social Security: What Every Taxpayer Should Know

Description: This article summarizes the Social Security changes that were signed into law P.L. 93-233 on Dec. 31, 1973. These changes were principally intended to advance the payment of part of the automatic benefit increase that would have been payable according to the provisions enacted in 1972.