Description: This session discussion is about the retiree health and life insurance plan design, retiree cost sharing arrangements, cost containment alternatives, trend considerations, funding assumptions for self-insured arrangements, single premium insurance pricing considerations and FASB draft update. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: This session is about postretirement: SFAS 106, plan design alternatives for controlling cost, funding the liability [VEBAs and Section 401[h], COLI, TOLI], retiree cost-sharing arrangements, trend considerations, controlling Medicare cost and effect of recent changes in Medicare. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This panel will review recent developments concerning design, accounting and funding for these benefits. Releases from the FASB and any proposed legislation will be included in the discussion as well as actuarial methodology and assumptions used in valuations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss the current and developing old-age crisis from a world perspective and a U.S. perspective, and also look at it from a futurism perspective. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This presentation discusses the size of potential liability, taxation of benefits, deductibility of contributions, future inflation effect, projected decline in governmental benefits, and financial accounting requirements for non-pension post retirement benefits. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A.

Description: This discussion on Group Insurance covers continuing group life insurance on retired employees and whether it is better to purchase with a single premium or use the regular one-year term method. It also covers the continuation of group hospital insurance after retirement. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: Attendees are updated on the Government Accounting Standards Board's GASB progress in establishing new recognition and disclosure requirements for post retirement benefits other than pensions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 25pd.

Description: ASOP No. 6 Exposure Draft Provisions Relating to Community Rated HMO Contracts by J. Richard Hogue from Pension Section News, February 2002, Issue No. 48.

Description: This article provides an overview of the laws and regulations governing pension funding and suggests analysis which will enable the plan sponsor to capitalize on contribution options and coordinate long and short term funding strategies.

Description: The panelists in this session discuss recent developments impacting the actuarial valuation of retiree health benefits. Topics include Medicare prescription drug reform, FAS 106, and proposed GASB statements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 19