Description: This session discussion is about the national retirement income policy. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented a discussion on the integration of pension plans with Social Security. The discussion included: Current integration requirements - what is and what might be, problems with the current rules - need for change, or not the recent proposal by Congress to redesign integration rules, practitioners' proposals to revise integration rules - in light of recent activity in Congress, and the next steps - better or worse?

Description: Discussion of the ways the volatility of the full funding limitation can be used as a consulting opportunity. Discussion of smoothing cash flow in the current regulatory environment and cash-flow forecasting in a volatile market.