Description: Using data from the Mexican Social Security Institute for labor risks, this paper classifies the severity of sequels in three categories: mild, moderate and high, and attempts to relate this level with the characteristics of the worker and his activities at work. Toward this goal, a model was built using a multilogistic regression, which allowed predicting the severity of physical sequels caused by a labor risk. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: This paper discussed highlights of the history and contents of the 1950 and the 1952 Amendments to the Social Security Act.

Description: This paper presents the amendments enacted by Congress in 1958 to the Social Security Act. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This paper presents and analyzes data on disability and disability termination rates from group waiver of premium, group disability income, individual loss-of-time business and the OASDI system. The paper also presents the differences in disability termination rates between male and female and the possible causes. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: ['he purpose of this paper is to describe a possible Old-Age Social Security Program for Bangladesh, with financial projections through the year 2025.

Description: The paper reviews in detail the measures of actuarial status used for the social security program since the program was developed in the middle 1930s. The paper concludes with suggestions by the author concerning appropriate measures of actuarial status for social security in the future. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1992: 1. 'Broken Promises: The Inside Story of the Failure of Executive Life' by Vic Modugno, 2. 'Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security' by Robert J. Myers, 3. 'Insurance Risk Models' by Harry H. Panjer and Godon E. Willmot, and 4. 'Social Security: What Every Taxypayer Should Know' by A. Haeworth Robertson. Notices of Social Security notes and studies are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol. 44.

Description: In Canada, there are three main sources of government-provided retirement income: 1. The Canada/Quebec Pension Plan [C/QPP], which have benefits and contributions based on earnings up to the Yearly Maximum Pensionable Earnings, 2. Old Age Security [OAS], which is a fixed amount for most but does include a 'clawback' of benefits for high-income individuals, and 3. The Guaranteed Income Supplement [GIS], which is designed to supplement those with extremely low income. The annual GIS benefit is reduced, or clawed back, by 50 cents for every dollar of annual income the person has in retirement, including C/QPP and income from Registered Retirement Savings Plans [RRSP] and other savings. OAS benefits are not included in determining the GIS clawback. The result of this is that low-income individuals who attempt to enhance their retirement replacement ratio actually see a decrease in government-provided support the more they save for retirement. In fact, savings in an RRSP can effectively be taxed at more than 100% through corresponding reductions in the GIS, social housing, home care, GAINS [Ontario's Guaranteed Annual Income Supplement], and other benefits which are based on one's personal retirement income. This paper explores a basic GIS exemption, a GIS clawback rate of lower than 50%, and various combinations of the two as alternative policies for the GIS. The goal is to improve the fairness of the GIS and reduce the disincentive to save for retirement, without increasing the overall cost of the program significantly.

Description: Chapter 8 of the Models for Retirement Policy Analysis. This chapter describes MINT, or Modeling Income in the Near Term, which is one of three retirement income and social security models now being developed in the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics of the Social Security Administration. The accessibility, ease of use, cost as well as the strengths and limitations of the approach are addressed.

Description: This paper examines the significant 1956 amendments to the Social Security Act and the estimated actuarial cost, and also discusses the historical financial experience and legislative revisions under Social Security and Public Assistance. A discussion of the paper is included.