Description: This paper examines how the costs in Canada of life insurance, medical care, disability, and retirement are impacted by increases in longevity. The paper then examines possible courses that policy action may take, and then proposes directions that employers may take in designing employee benefit programs.

Description: Article that discusses the structure of and concern for using social security numbers as a means of identification.

Description: This excerpt from the 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the intermediate assumptions. Also presented are the projections of program costs under the twp alternative sets of assumptions.

Description: A summary from the Trustees report: SMI Trust Fund: Estimates under Alternative II Assumption for Aged and Disabled Excluding End-Stage Renal Disease Enrollees

Description: This paper examines how income sources change when married women in Britain, the U.S., and Germany are widowed, and it draws inferences about the income consequences of specific retirement and survivorship provisions. .

Description: The purpose of this paper is to identify the changes in the structure and composition of families and to discuss the implications of those changes for Social Security reform.

Description: This paper proposes, for long-term care, a new funding model in which social insurance and private insurance will pay for the bulk of the costs, supplemented by personal payment. If these sources fail, public welfare will serve as a safety net.

Description: Medicare Advantage Organizations must consider influences both internal and external to the adjudication process as they review and use data for bid preparation

Description: An excerpt from the 2003 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for Medicare Part B under the intermediate assumptions.

Description: An article that takes a look at the actuaries original estimates for Medicare's hospital insurance program relative to actual figures.