Description: Summarizes Actuarial Note No. 100, Actuarial Studies No. 80 and No. 81 - published in Feb. and April 1980.

Description: The article explores ways that legislative policy options that focus on both trust fund solvency and benefit adequacy may be implemented to bring about Social Security solvency and sustainability.

Description: Summarizes Actuarial Notes 98 and 99 - Nov. 1979 and Jan. 1980. Also summarizes a booklet entitled History of the Provisions of Old-Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance 1935- 1979, Social Security Administration ,Baltimore, MD, January 1980.

Description: Summary of testimony by an AAA Board member before a congressional subcommittee, as an expert on risk assessment and adjustment, especially in relation to Medicare risk contracting and HMO payments. She recommended: mitigating the geographical region values, credibility weights for payments to health plans, carving out high cost claim segments, reengineering the ACR methodology, shifting AAPCC methodology from fee-for-service toward competitive bidding, and further projects to improve risk methods.

Description: Discusses a proposal that Social Security retirement benefits should be adjusted according to a special cost-of-living index based upon retirees spending habits rather than the familiar CPI.

Description: People often describe the actuarial profession as dealing with risk. That is true, but in the case of life and health actuaries, another element may be even more important. It is the management of liabilities that accrue over time. For example, the liability associated with a group of individual life insureds increases as the group grows older.

Description: If the United States is to have a successful Social Security and Medicare system long term, one that blends needs with financial capacity, it is necessary to protect the actuarial process from being overwhelmed by the political process. While some assistance is provided already under existing law, additional protection would enhance public confidence in the estimates made by government actuaries.

Description: Summarizes four Social Security Administration Notes for 1969 and January 1970.

Description: Discusses the Survivor Benefit Plan SBP for the Uniformed Services from an actuarial perspective.