Description: This paper surveys the actuarial techniques connected with salary scale mathematics for the valuation of defined benefit pension plans. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: These are discussion papers on the paper, 'The 1952 Amendments to the Social Security Act' by Robert J. Myers.

Description: This article describes a report by the GAO that was prepared at the request of Congressman Wolff. Robert J. Myers, the author of the article, that the GAO report is “an excellent summary of the various recent studies on the financial problems confronting the OASDI system. Four of the studies have been recently reviewed in The Actuary: An Actuarial Audit of the Social Security System by Kaplan and Weil April 1975, the 1975 Trustees Report June 1975, Report of the Panel on Social Security Financing to the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate May 1975, and Reports of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security October 1975. Also considered in the report are editorial comments by The Wall Street Journal which first impelled Congressman Wolff to request the GAO Report.”

Description: Distinguished panelists discuss the historical development of long-range 'close actuarial balance' of OASDI, its purposes and how well it is fulfilling its purposes, whether similar measures should be applied to the Hospital Insurance [HI] and Supplementary Medical Insurance [SMI] programs, and possible alternative measures. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.