Description: Article describing two actuarial notes released by the Social Security Administration in 1967 clarifying changes to primary insurance amounts and family benefits.

Description: This article discusses the changes to the Social Security System that were enacted at mid-year 1972 in Public Law 92-336. Among the changes are the so-called 'automatic' provisions,' under which Social Security benefits are periodically increased in step with the Consumer Price Index, and the earnings base is concurrently increased in step with average earnings levels.

Description: Senate Resolution 350, June 26, 1974, provided for an expert, independent analysis of the actuarial status of the social security system, to be made for the Senate Committee on Finance. Robert Myers provides comments on this report and finds it an excellent example of how an actuarial report should be presented to the public.

Description: This article is about the role of interest in financing the OASDI system and assumptions if the OASDI system is funded in the future so that it is on a current cost basis.

Description: On October 21, the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS released the Consumer Price Index KPI for September. With that figure, the Social Security Administration calculated the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment COLA for December 1988, which was 4.0%.

Description: In this article the author offers ideas on how indexing can be used to help control the cost of Social Security in order to create long term financial stability and restore public confidence in the system.

Description: Thanks to the actuaries who advise the Social Security Trustees, the 1985 Trustee Reports published March 28, 1985 contain enough information for the careful reader to estimate the remaining life expectancy of the present system, which will be 50 years old on Aug. 14, 1985.

Description: Book comprises 27 papers from a 1982 symposium in honor of Robert J. Myers. Review describes the 27 papers that make up the volume, and gives an overall very positive review.

Description: This article provides comments on some of the economic and demographic forecasts in the 1976 OASDI Report Social Security.

Description: This article is about the relative merits of changing the U.S. Social Security system from its current defined benefit approach to a defined contribution approach.