Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting focuses on the problems with the dominant social pension systems around the world and the potential solutions to the problems in providing retirement income security in the face of aging populations and diminishing resources. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Discusses those Disability Insurance program changes, brought about by the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980, which fall into two major categories: benefit amounts and program administration.

Description: A review of a pamphlet which described the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1977.

Description: The projection methods used by the Social Security Administration's Office of the Chief Actuary are important. The resulting projections are cited regularly by policy-makers, academics and others interested in the long-term financial solvency of the OASDI system. However, a complete description of this projection methodology that is vital for serious policy discussions is not available to the general public. This summary was constructed in connection with the Social Security Advisory Board's 1999 Technical Panel on Methods and Assumptions. A goal of the Methods and Modeling working group of the Technical Panel was to 'work to ensure that the projection methods used by the Office of the Chief Actuary become more public.' From Actuarial Research Clearing House 2000, Vol. 1.

Description: Highlights the recent changes to Social Security and Medicare from enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Also highlights some changes voted in by one of the houses but not by both, and therefore not enacted.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent session 4A: Longevity in the Public Eye from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Describes the December 2021 COLA and other changes effective in 2022, along with how they are computed.

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

Description: This article is a review of the report, An Actuarial Audit of the Social Security System, by Robert S. Kaplan and Roman L. Weil. Mr. Myers suggests that economists were not the appropriately chosen authors for an actuarial audit.

Description: Read the August 2017 issue of In The Public Interest published by the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section.