Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: This article provides comments on some of the economic and demographic forecasts in the 1976 OASDI Report Social Security.

Description: A review of a book by a former Commissioner of Social Security, in which he shares his thoughts on what Social Security is, the new law, the financing, the benefits, the types of employment covered, the benefit amounts, the retirement test, and several subsidiary topics.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Thanks to the actuaries who advise the Social Security Trustees, the 1985 Trustee Reports published March 28, 1985 contain enough information for the careful reader to estimate the remaining life expectancy of the present system, which will be 50 years old on Aug. 14, 1985.

Description: Book comprises 27 papers from a 1982 symposium in honor of Robert J. Myers. Review describes the 27 papers that make up the volume, and gives an overall very positive review.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about Social Security and Medicare. This note compares actual experience for both fiscal year 1970 and calendar year 1970 with the short-range cost estimates given in the 1970 Trustees’ Reports.

Description: This is a brief summary of a Brooking Institution study entitled 'The Payroll Tax for Social Security. The study argues that the payroll tax should be eliminated as a source of financing of Social Security on the grounds that it is regressive and is especially burdensome to the poor.

Description: In this year’s Trustees’ Reports, recently submitted to the Congress, most attention focuses on the cash benefits program which is projected to have an actuarial deficit of about 3% of taxable payroll, over the 75-year valuation period.

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