Description: Discusses areas in which Social Security could be improved and possible changes that may come about.

Description: Book review for An American Philosophy of Social Security written by the chairman for the original Social Security Advisory Council and discusses the original and subsequent thinking about social security.

Description: Summary of the Reports of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security.

Description: Response to Robert Myers review of an actuarialaudit of the Social Security system performed by Professors Kaplan and Weil.

Description: Summarizes the 1980 Social Security Trustees Report and Actuarial Study No. 82 on cost estimates. Also provides some analysis of these matters.

Description: A review of a pamphlet which described the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1977.

Description: Discussion of the Society of Actuaries' first consumer education program, dealing with Social Security funding and the contributors to the program. There is a hint of a discussion of the results of a survey of the value of the program, but the sentence ends in mid stream. There is also a discussion that there will be a similar education program directed at Medicare in the future but there is no discussion of this future program in the article.

Description: An article from The Actuary that highlights Stephen C. Goss, chief actuary at the Social Security Administration, who was recently awarded the National Academy of Social Insurance's NASI first ever Robert M. Ball Award for outstanding achievements in social insurance. According to NASI, Goss exemplifies 'public service' at its very best. The Actuary asked Goss if he could give a little more of himself and answer some questions about his career, which, of course, he did.

Description: Summarizes Actuarial Note No. 100, Actuarial Studies No. 80 and No. 81 - published in Feb. and April 1980.

Description: This article is a summary of “Reports of Consultants on Actuarial and Definitional Aspects of Social Security Disability Insurance,” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. These reports are concerned with the disability portion of the Social Security Act and more specifically, with certain aspects of the definition of disability and the increases in benefit utilization that are taking place under this disability program.