Description: This research paper investigates health care costs in the last year of life. This paper looks specifically at the issues of measurement of retiree health care costs when the baseline healthcare costs are measured in terms of the last year of life costs and maintenance costs.

Description: This discussion on Group Insurance covers continuing group life insurance on retired employees and whether it is better to purchase with a single premium or use the regular one-year term method. It also covers the continuation of group hospital insurance after retirement. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This survey was conducted by the Society of Actuaries to uncover how the continuing rise in healthcare costs is affecting consumers’ retirement planning, particularly for pre-retirees ages 50-64. This fact sheet presents key findings.

Description: This session discussion is about postretirement health benefit funding, leveraged corporate-owned life insurance, trust-owned life insurance, settlement contracts, 401h and pension plan asset transfer. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This article reviews the new standard of practice, ASOP 6, and its impact on the actuarial assumptions that actuaries use for valuations of retiree group medical and life benefits.

Description: Most industry professionals acknowledge that funding retirement needs will almost always require disciplined savings over a period of decades. Today, we are less than 30 years from the second half of the 21st Century. However, a majority of the Millennial and Gen Z generations are either not eligible for or are not using today's tax-preferred options for funding retiree medical and Long Term Care (LTC).

Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans after retirement. The following questions are addressed: 1. To what extent are death benefits and medical benefits for employees and dependents kept in force after the employee retires?, 2. Where there is a continuation of such benefits for a retired employee or his dependent, what special problems can result from remarriage or reemployment, or in the event of the enactment of a federal plan?, 3. What methods of paying for or funding such costs are used?, and 4. What are the tax implications to both the employee and employer of the various approaches? Also discussed are insured vs. non-insured plans and valuation standards for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This fact sheet summarizes the results of a survey analyzing retirees’ and pre-retirees’ concerns on retirement. It also reveals how these groups have prepared or are preparing to face risks and offers personal risk management strategies and tips.

Description: Article about the future roles in health insurance.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Examines benefit plan design dynamics, including FAS 106 impacts, involved in Medicare retiree plans by discussing some typical examples.