Description: This article is an excerpt taken from, Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs: A Summary of the 2004 Annual Reports - A Message to the Public. From the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: The presenters will provide an overview of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), its financial status, recent changes and trends in utilization of the program.

Description: This paper explores a range of public policy issues stemming from proposals to introduce some form of defined contribution system into Social Security in the U. S. and Canada. From In Defense of Pay-as-You-Go Paygo Financing of Social Security, M-RS99-1.

Description: This paper recommends a 'macroview' of the Social Security program that is related to the broader economic and social environment now and in the future. OASDI is not simply a private-sector pension plan on a large scale. Instead, it provides socially determined claims on the future economy. Demography cannot be ignored, but it is not the sole determinant of what is desirable or affordable. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities -The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

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 article offers a critique of explanatory text and principal economic and demographic assumption tables from the 2003 Annual report of the Board of Trustees of the OASDI Trust Fund. From Pension Section News, March 2004, Issue No. 54.

Description: Andrew Peterson gives an excellent synopsis and editorial comments on the high points of the National Academy of Social Insurance’s 23rd annual Conference, held this January at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Description: Paper focuses on the situation in Canada. First examined are the factors behind rising health-care costs resulting form two phenomena:changing cohort size and lower mortality among the elderly. Second examined are the are effects of lower than forecast mortality on pay-as-you-go systems. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: HI Trust Fund: Actuarial Methodology and Principal Assumptions from Pension Section News, November 1998, Issue No. 38.

Description: A glossary of terms.