Description: Chapter 7 of the Models for Retirement Policy Analysis. This chapter describes the Social Security Administration's system of assumptions and modeling techniques used to project the finances of the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance OASI and Disability Insurance DI trust funds.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent session 4A: Longevity in the Public Eye from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Diverse Risks 2016 Call for Essays

Description: Summary of discussions from various panelists on the topic of Social Security. They looked at recent developments with respect to general legislation expanding coverage, discussion of the Constitutional issues with respect to Social Security, developing experience of the new Canadian old-age pension plan, inadequacy of the funding levels relative to promised benefits for both the Canadian old-age plan and US Social Security.

Description: This article provides a summary of the February 1967 Canadian Institute of Actuaries discussion on the 1966 amendment to the Old Age Security Act and its effects on Canada and Quebec pension plans.

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.