Description: Discusses the recent firing of the Social Security Commissioner and the president's legal authority to do so.

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 paper discusses social insurance supplement - SIS insurance which is a disability income policy rider that pays an additional benefit on disability if the insured is not receiving benefits from a social program. It provides one possible framework for the actuarial structure of the product. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss Congressional proposals for changing Medicare and the Academy's Medicare Reform Task Force report with respect to financial soundness, competition and potential prescription drug benefits.

Description: Describes the December 2021 COLA and other changes effective in 2022, along with how they are computed.

Description: Summary of the annual cost-of-living adjustment and changes in other wage-indexed programs parameters for Social Security in 2024.

Description: This paper discusses and reaches the conclusion that baby-boomers and younger workers need to be told that their Social Security benefits will be substantially less adequate than those of today's retirees, and that they need to know now so that they have time to take appropriate actions to have more retirement income available from other sources. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities - The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at recent and pending social security legislation, the 1990 Trustees Report, and the Moynihan proposal to move to pay-as-you-go financing.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses developments in Social Security.

Description: In this session 114 PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting, Social Security and Medicare experts separate fact from fiction to give you insight into the sovency of the systems and proposals for change. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.