Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 5 that highlights the actuarial profession during the December 10th, 1982 meeting of the National Commission on Social Security Reform. The Commission's Executive Director directed attention to a Washington Post article reporting that the Social Security actuaries were thinking of decreasing their fertility assumptions for the 1983 Trustees Report.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author describes the 1954 amendments to Social Security, with a comparison to the 1950 and 1952 amendments, all of which primarily affected the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance [OASI] system, increasing benefits. Data on experience under the 1950 and 1952 amendments is provided. The author discusses the major changes enacted under the 1954 amendments, among them extension of coverage, increases in benefits and an increase in the maximum wages subject to contributions.

Description: The article first tries to determine a consensus view of what social security should accomplish and then tries to measure how well the current level of benefits succeeds in meeting these goals. Assessing benefit adequacy is an essential element in putting the overall program on a sound financing footing.

Description: A Paper to Note The Vital Connection, an ERIC Publication by Joseph Applebaum from Pension Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 39.

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 provides comments on some of the economic and demographic forecasts in the 1976 OASDI Report Social Security.

Description: This is an article about Social Security disabled-worker experience 1979-1982.

Description: In this article the author chides the authors of the 'SUMMARY OF THE 2010 ANNUAL REPORTS SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES' for presenting biased 'misinformation and disinformation in their Message to the Public, and for their contribution to public ignorance about Social Security and Medicare financing.' He attributes this to the fact that the Boards are devoid of public trustees, and consist solely of partisan political appointees.

Description: On October 21, the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS released the Consumer Price Index KPI for September. With that figure, the Social Security Administration calculated the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment COLA for December 1988, which was 4.0%.

Description: This article gives an overview of how countries all over the world are addressing the issue social security financing and its rapidly growing costs.