Description: Chairperson's Corner discussing actuarial principles and what we as actuaries value in our work.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 reviews the Advisory Council on Social Security's 1971 report on Social Security and Medicare.

Description: Book review for An American Philosophy of Social Security written by the chairman for the original Social Security Advisory Council and discusses the original and subsequent thinking about social security.

Description: June 2013 issue of the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section newsletter, In The Public Interest.

Description: Member benefit newsletter for the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section of the SOA.

Description: This article is about a consumer education program sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Foundation, “On the edge of change: Putting Social Security back in balance” and plans for a similar project dealing with Medicare in the future.

Description: During the SOA’s recent Living to 100 Symposium, one of the sessions that got me thinking much more deeply about the financing of public retirement plans was titled “Mortality Age Patterns: Trends and Projections.”

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about Social Security and Medicare. This note compares actual experience for both fiscal year 1970 and calendar year 1970 with the short-range cost estimates given in the 1970 Trustees’ Reports.

Description: This article discusses Social Security amendments of 1983 that include triggering devices based on trust-fund ratios that affect the funding or benefits of the system for both OASDI and Medicare.

Description: Highlights the recent changes to Social Security and Medicare from enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Also highlights some changes voted in by one of the houses but not by both, and therefore not enacted.