Description: Letter from Editor in the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest in which the editor discusses the section’s first newsletter.

Description: Letter from the editor for the January 2013 publication.

Description: Chairperson's Corner discussing actuarial principles and what we as actuaries value in our work.

Description: Book Review: Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security by Robert Myers . 'This splendid book' tells of Mr. Myers remarkable public service career and appraises the influence of many American politicians.

Description: Recent testimony on Social Security was given to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging by David Langer, who defended the current system and strongly opposed recent moves to privatize. This article summarizes Mr. Langer's testimony.

Description: A description of the changes to Social Security that will occur in 2020.

Description: A feature article discussing how ZIP codes can affect longevity.

Description: The OASDI from a Canadian Perspective Review by Bernard Dussault of the 2000 Trustees Report on the OASDI from The Pension Forum, December 2000, Volume 12, Issue No. 1.

Description: This study was sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section. This paper explores the relative significance of aging as a determinant of financial cost of health care beyond age 50, with particular attention to the effect for ages 65 and older. The paper presents concepts of aging factors and aging curves, which define relative values between ages for utilization or cost of health care services. General conclusions are drawn from Medicare data that utilization and cost differ by age, but that aging factors vary across services and may be less significant at very old ages. The author then turns to the question of measuring the significance of an aging curve assumption and what accuracy is lost in the simpler alternative of a single value across an age range.

Description: This paper presents a new method for blending census and Medicare mortality rates for the U.S. Decennial Life Tables. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992 Vol. 2 .