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: Panelists at this session of the SOA Maui II Spring Meeting discuss how well the U.S. and Candian social security systems have met the criteria for an equitable system. An Australian actuary discusses his paper 'The Development of Some Criteria for Equity and National Retirement Income Systems.'

Description: The Social Security amendments of 1977 are considered to be the most significant Social Security legislation since the 1972 amendments and possibly those of 1950. This 1978 presentation is a discussion the 1977 Social Security amendments including: 1. A description of the major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, and 3. Possible future Social Security legislation.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses the critical issues of the financing for the Social Security systems in the U.S. and Canada. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 21, No. 3b.

Description: Panelists at this session at the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting present the SOA's research project on Social Security and mortality projection methods, the results and key issues and how it has been applied in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting is about the comparison of social security systems in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the relationship between social security and private pension plans, and the contrast of Canadian and European governmental medical insurance programs to the continuing controversy in the United States over government health insurance.

Description: This session is about the U. S. Social Security System undergoing a period of critical reappraisal with the costs and future of the system in question, and about how the actuarial profession should be involved in the process.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting addressed the impact of ERISA on pensions.

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: Participants learn about the demographic, economic, and investment aspects of Social Security systems. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 30PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.