Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting is about the comparison of social security systems in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the relationship between social security and private pension plans, and the contrast of Canadian and European governmental medical insurance programs to the continuing controversy in the United States over government health insurance.

Description: Participants learn about the demographic, economic, and investment aspects of Social Security systems. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 30PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

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: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents different governmental approaches to providing financial security and health benefits for retirees, the problems associated with aging populations and the reduction in resources available to meet their needs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting shows a comprehensive look inside government debt problems in the U.S. and Canada, Generational Accounts and the implications on government debt of the generational accounts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses the current developments in Social Security including the Social Security Amendments of 1983, Social Security Reform, taxation changes, maintaining an adequate trust fund ratio and the economic assumptions. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: A professor from England gives his views on the United States Social Security System, including a comparison to other systems.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of a changing environment on personal security programs. Some of the issues addressed include regulations, taxes, consumerism, Social Security, inflation, and age/sex composition of work force.

Description: The authors comment on James C. Hickman's paper about the Social Security decoupling issue. Decoupling generally refers to the separation of the procedures used to determine benefits for future recipients from those that adjust benefits for current recipients.

Description: Presented at Annual Meeting October 1986. Discusses: Reasonableness of cost projections in the 1986 OASDI Trustees Report, Possible policy alternatives in response to the higher cost projected for years after 2020, How to reduce the variability in cost trends due to economic and demographic changes, Financing implications of differences and similarities in cost trends between Social Security pensions and private pensions, paper, 'Components of Trends in Social Security Costs' by Francisco R. Bayo, Milton P. Glanz and Charles L. Trowbridge.