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

Description: The book review states 'This monograph provides an independent overview of the assumptions and methodology behind the OASDI estimates made by the Social Security Administration. Such information has heretofore been available only in the annual reports of the Board of Trustees of the OASDI Trust Funds, in the Actuarial Studies issued by the SSA and in writings by individuals closely associated with the system.'

Description: A periodic update from the chairperson on section council activities and outlook for the coming year.

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

Description: This article discusses the financial imbalance of the Canadian Pension Plan and the need for changes.

Description: Discusses public pension reform in Japan.

Description: Discusses author's thoughts on emerging social policy such as Social Security.

Description: These are comments made by a past president of the SOA in regards to an article written by Jean Sasseville reviewing the World Bank Policy Research Report.

Description: This article is a review of the 1981 book ‘The Coming Revolution in Social Security,’ by A. Haeworth Robinson. The reviewer notes that the author believes there is ‘dangerous lack of information about the current program,’ but that understanding will bring demand for radical changes. An important question asked by the book is whether, due to the changes in our society and economy since the original program was instituted, and probable future changes, the system needs to be fundamentally different and more flexible.

Description: OASDI Trust Fund: Principal Economic and Demographic Assumptions from Pension Section News, November 1998, Issue No. 38.