Description: Description of Social Security COLA for December 2020 and wage-indexed program parameters for 2021.

Description: Every October, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) announces certain changes in program amounts that occur automatically—that is, without any new legislation being necessary. The most widely publicized of these changes is the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) affecting monthly Social Security benefits. Other automatic changes are important to people of working age as well as to beneficiaries. On Oct. 13, 2021, the government announced the Social Security COLA effective for December 2021 and the other changes effective for 2022.

Description: News about appointment of new commissioner of Social Security and movement on confirmation of public trustees.

Description: Editorial for the January 2020 issue of In The Public Interest.

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

Description: A discussion on mandatory social security coverage of State and local government employees.

Description: Letter from the president. After a long, but gratifying, six-year journey, the SOA’s basic education restructuring is now fully implemented. Basic education (i.e., through FSA) now reflects a sound, solid continuum.

Description: This paper presents an analysis of whether workers get their 'money's worth' from the taxes they pay under the U.S. Social Security program. The cash retirement benefits for various cases of workers who have attained age 65 in different years and at different earnings levels is explored. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: History of different treatment of men and women under the rules of the U.S. Social Security program.

Description: Letter from the editor urging section members to participate in section activities.