Description: Panelists discuss the pros and cons of using a care manager in order to receive either benefits or enhanced benefits in long term care plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: The OASDI from a Canadian Perspective Review by Bernard Dussault of the 2000 Trustees Report on the OASDI from The Pension Forum, December 2000, Volume 12, Issue No. 1.

Description: Outline of changes to the Adjust Community Rate ACR Proposal process and Beneficary Information Form, Issue No. 38

Description: An excerpt from the 2003 Annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used for the intermediate assumptions.

Description: The standard for measuring retirement income adequacy has been the final earnings replacement rate (usually targeted at 70%). But - does it work?

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1994 – Volume 28, No. 5 in which the author looks at the original estimates compared the actual estimates in regards to End Stage Renal Disease ESRD program.

Description: Discussion of Medicare's Ambulatory Payment Classification APC system as the standard for reimbursement of non-capitated outpatient hospital services with sample calculations. Issue No. 37.

Description: This article discusses whether there should be a delayed retirement credit and, if so, how much the credit should be. The article distinguishes the applicability of the delayed retirement credit between social insurance and private pensions.

Description: This articles features three study notes for used for the Retirement Benefits course 8 exam: Current Issues in Social Security by Steven McKay Mortality Tables for Pension Plans by D. Grubbs and M. Oliver and Valuation of Pension Benefits for Disabled participants by Edward Sypher

Description: Information about a social insurance modeling mini-seminar at the SOA’s 2010 Annual Meeting