Description: The 1999 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods by Edward W. Frees from Pension Section News, March 2000, Issue No. 42.

Description: This article is an excerpt taken from, Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs: A Summary of the 2004 Annual Reports - A Message to the Public. From the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: The paper presents arguments to show that a fully funded social security scheme is no more secure economically than a pay as you go scheme....that is, for real retirement income security the funding mechanism is irrelevant. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 1996, VOL. 1.

Description: The presenters will provide an overview of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), its financial status, recent changes and trends in utilization of the program.

Description: This article discusses key excerpts from testimony in June and July 1981 by James R.Swenson, Chairman of the Academy’s Committee on Social Insurance, to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and to the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security. The testimony recommended that the long term problems of Social Security be addressed at the same time as the short term imbalances, that benefits be adjusted to affordable levels e.g. gradual increase in retirement age, that more attention be paid to pessimistic actuarial projections, that the actuaries be given more latitude in selecting assumptions, and that the law be amended to require actuarial certifications for Social Security.

Description: This paper summarizes the legislative activity from 1969-72 with regards to social security. Topics include expansions in Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance [OASDI], establishment of social security trust funds, and changes in Medicare including extensions of benefits to disabled persons. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973, Vol. 25, Pt. 1, No. 73.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session was a debate on the future financial viability of the Social Security Program.

Description: This paper is a report on research for undergraduate experience grants held for 8 weeks under the direction of Cecil Nesbitt. The topic of the research was Social Security Financing and Related Matters. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 1.

Description: This article is about the role of interest in financing the OASDI system and assumptions if the OASDI system is funded in the future so that it is on a current cost basis.

Description: On October 21, the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS released the Consumer Price Index KPI for September. With that figure, the Social Security Administration calculated the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment COLA for December 1988, which was 4.0%.