Description: Three long-term care claimants lead very full lives, thanks to making the most of their employer-sponsored group long-term care insurance coverage, in terms of using it through intelligent and conservative benefit utilization.

Description: The article provides an overview of the federal tax treatment of long-term care insurance contracts, including a brief history of the tax treatment of long-term care insurance, the requirements that must be satisfied in order to be treated as qualified long-term care insurance under the Internal Revenue Code, and a brief discussion of qualified long-term care combination products and chronic and terminal illness accelerated death benefits offered under life insurance contracts.

Description: Article examines consistency across different underwriting manuals for LTCI.

Description: May 2010 issue of the Long-Term Care Insurance Section newsletter.

Description: Look into history of long-term care insurance industry to understand the forces that shaped current industry's position and to identify new directions.

Description: This article explores several ideas about in-force management and product innovation that may help the industry to reboot, in order to continue protecting Americans against the financial

Description: Article summarizes research report on supply of neurologists and dementia LTC claims.

Description: This article discusses what options exist for people who don’t pass underwriting for long-term care (LTC) insurance.

Description: The SOA Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks, working closely with the SOA Long Term Care Section, issued a call for papers in 2013: “Managing the Impact of Long-Term Care Needs and Expense on Retirement Security: A Holistic and Multi-Generational View.” The papers that were chosen were highlighted at the 2014 Annual Meeting and will be published as a monograph, both available on the SOA website. These papers add to the section’s and others’ ongoing discussions about the future of the long term care system including the “Land This Plane” project. Some of the items of greatest focus are integration with retirement security, impact on the caregiver and family, and integration with housing as well as offering an array of possible pubic policy reform.

Description: letter from the editor, she introduces herself and her role as a consultant.