Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting is about the comparison of social security systems in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the relationship between social security and private pension plans, and the contrast of Canadian and European governmental medical insurance programs to the continuing controversy in the United States over government health insurance.

Description: This 1979 panel discussion focuses on Social Security and the possibility for future changes in such areas as financing, retirement age, benefit design, treatment of women, and retirement test.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting examines the Social Security Amendments of 1983 including benefits vs. taxes over a worker's lifetime, implications of Social Security changes for employee benefit plans and compensation arrangements. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the financial security of retirees including examining the role of personal savings in meeting the financial security needs of retirees. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This article covers a session at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries. It addresses the following issues: how the Social Security system reached its present situation with respect to benefit levels and actuarial status, the problems in Social Security funding and with the Social Security system, the prospects for the Railroad Retirement system and the future of Social Security. 1975 Record Vol.1, No.3

Description: This presentation, session number 80PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the far-reaching, and not fully understood, proposals for fundamentally changing Social Security, including proposals from Congress, private individuals and groups, and by members of the recent Advisory Council on Social Security. They include “privatizing” Social Security, partially or fully, and changing the investment policy to allow trust fund investments in private securities. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 1997 Annual Meeting. This session presents some of the economic issues associated with worldwide old-age crisis, focusing on the management of cash flows in social security systems and how they affect the country's national economy.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses developments in Social Security.

Description: The authors comment on James C. Hickman's paper about the Social Security decoupling issue. Decoupling generally refers to the separation of the procedures used to determine benefits for future recipients from those that adjust benefits for current recipients.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents different governmental approaches to providing financial security and health benefits for retirees, the problems associated with aging populations and the reduction in resources available to meet their needs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.