Description: This article provides comments on some of the economic and demographic forecasts in the 1976 OASDI Report Social Security.

Description: Article from The Actuary October 1992 – Volume 26, No. 08 is a book review of Social Security: What Every Taxpayer Should Know

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: This article is a summary of responses to a questionnaire from Benjamin I. Gottlieb in Washington that had been sent to a random sample of 500 Society Fellows in the U.S. The questionnaire dealt with the anticipated long-term economic and demographic assumptions for social security.

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: The book review states 'This monograph provides an independent overview of the assumptions and methodology behind the OASDI estimates made by the Social Security Administration. Such information has heretofore been available only in the annual reports of the Board of Trustees of the OASDI Trust Funds, in the Actuarial Studies issued by the SSA and in writings by individuals closely associated with the system.'

Description: Discusses the report of the fifth Advisory Council which provides recommendations for improving Social Security.

Description: Argues that the budget for the Social Security program should not be 'unified'with the rest of the federal budget in evaluating the federal deficit.

Description: Summaries of three Social Security Administration Actuarial Notes for June and July 1969 covering medical, disability and survivor benefits.

Description: This article is a review of the 1977 book “The Future of Social Security,” by Alicia H. Munnell, formerly on the staff of the Brookings Institution and now an Assistant Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The author of this review notes that the financial problems of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program have drawn considerable public attention during the past few years, and this has produced quite a number of books and papers on the subject with various recommendations as to what should be done about the future of the program. The reviewer thinks highly of this book, which covers the philosophical questions of individual equity vs. social adequacy, and the question of the effect of OASDI on savings and capital accumulation. Note: A detailed review of the book will appear in the Transactions.