Description: This session is about the U. S. Social Security System undergoing a period of critical reappraisal with the costs and future of the system in question, and about how the actuarial profession should be involved in the process.

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

Description: This 1978 session on Social Security Funding included discussion on 1. Major Amendments, 2. Financing condition of Social Security after amendments, 3. Benefit levels, and 4. Possible future legislation.

Description: This 1978 discussion session focuses on Social Security after the 1977 amendments. Included are the following topics: 1. The 1977 major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, 3. Social Security benefit levels, and 4. Possible future Social Security legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 3.

Description: Thanks to the actuaries who advise the Social Security Trustees, the 1985 Trustee Reports published March 28, 1985 contain enough information for the careful reader to estimate the remaining life expectancy of the present system, which will be 50 years old on Aug. 14, 1985.

Description: The Social Security amendments of 1977 are considered to be the most significant Social Security legislation since the 1972 amendments and possibly those of 1950. This 1978 presentation is a discussion the 1977 Social Security amendments including: 1. A description of the major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, and 3. Possible future Social Security legislation.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about Social Security's projected costs exceeding income

Description: Discusses areas in which Social Security could be improved and possible changes that may come about.

Description: This 1979 panel discussion focuses on Social Security and the possibility for future changes in such areas as financing, retirement age, benefit design, treatment of women, and retirement test.

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.