Description: This document is a meeting session summary. The meeting occurred at the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The session compared and contrasted educational and experience requirements for actuaries and economists, costs of long range social insurance programs, costs of short range programs, economic analysis of the effects of social insurance programs and cooperation between the two professions to analyze social insurance programs.

Description: This paper contains a collection of book reviews published in Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: The most important purpose of this open forum is to provide a forum at which interested persons can make specific suggestions about what the research needs of the profession are and how they might most effectively be carried out. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the national commission on social security reform. Topics included: 1. Current financial status of the OASDI and HI programs short range and long range? 2. Options for solving the financing problems. 3. Goals of the NCSSR in solving these problems and recommendations determined to date. 4. General public understanding of the issues?

Description: The author analyzes the arguments for and against a Social Security earnings test and concludes with a recommendation the author believes is consistent with the proper purpose and nature of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance [OASDI] system. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982 Volume 34.

Description: This paper documents recent medicare utilization experience from 1975-1977 extracted from a large statistical data file developed by the Department of Health and Human Services. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present two new mortality tables for railroad disability annuitants which have been developed recently by the actuarial staff of the Railroad Retirement Board. The tables have been designed for use in the actuarial valuation of the railroad retirement plan as of 1965.

Description: This paper gives the new Railroad Retirement Board standards, called the '1962 RRB Mortality Table for Women' and the '1962 RRB Remarriage Table' and describes their construction.

Description: This is a compilation of a year-by-year tally of new Fellows covering the 92 years of this Society and its two predecessor organizations.

Description: Articles from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 briefly summarizing reports from the Railroad Retirement Board and Social Security Administration. The reports deal with the results of the December 31, 1968 triennial valuation of the Railroad Retirement System, interesting information on the Railroad Retirement and Social Security systems for calendar year 1970, historical data through 1969 on coverage under all types of employee benefit plans, and a study of men who were awarded non-disability Social Security benefits at ages 62 and over in the first six month of 1969 to determine why people claim benefits when they do.