Description: The administrators of Social Security offset-type defined benefit plans commonly encounter two difficulties when attempting to calculate the Primary Insurance Amount 'PIA' offset. The first difficulty is in obtaining the Social Security earnings history. The second difficulty is in performing the calculation itself. This paper explores the possibility of substituting a variant of the employee's final average salary for his or her Social Security Average Indexed Monthly Earnings 'AIME'. The acceptability of this substitution is then critiqued with illustrations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This section contains book reviews and summaries of recently published works on subjects including demography, savings in the U.S., life company state examinations, private pensions, Industrial insurance, medical care, and union welfare plans.

Description: This section contains book reviews for, The Financial Dynamics of the Insurance Industry, Calculated Risk: A Provider's Guide to Assessing and Controlling the Financial Risk of Managed Care and Options and the Management of Financial Risk. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This panel focuses on the current social and economic issues of health insurance within Canada and the U.S., with particular issues in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the major health issues facing the United States of affordable care and cost controls. While this paper does not develop a specific health plan, it does analyze the problems and give direction. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications: 'Equitable Assurances' by Ogborn, 'Fulfilling Pension Expectations' by McGill, 'Voluntary Health Insurance and Rate Making' by MacIntyre, 'Prepayment for Medical and Dental Care in New York State...' by State of New York, 'Financing Health Care of the Aged, Part I' by Blue Cross, 'The Second Report of the Ontario Committee on Portable Pensions' by Gathercole and MacGregor, 'Economics of Unemployment Compensation' by Princeton University, 'The Investment Process as Characterized by Leading Life Insurance Companies' by Walter. Some digests also included.

Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: These reports cover two Canadian topics. First is a summary of the Carter Commission Report that proposes a radically different tax system. Second is a report on the status of government involvement in health care.

Description: Some insurance products on the market today accelerate the death benefit by paying a portion of the benefit before death under certain prescribed conditions. The more common of these products are long-term-care and dread disease riders to life policies. This paper presents generic formulas for calculating the cost of morbidity that would be multiplied by the policy's net amount at risk in an asset share pricing calculation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: Table of Contents for 1993-94 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience