Description: Chairperson's Corner discussing actuarial principles and what we as actuaries value in our work.

Description: Essay recommending establishing a consistent and actuarially sound foundation for assessing the costs and benefits of each and every current and new Medicare or other healthcare proposal.

Description: June 2013 issue of the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section newsletter, In The Public Interest.

Description: Member benefit newsletter for the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section of the SOA.

Description: During the SOA’s recent Living to 100 Symposium, one of the sessions that got me thinking much more deeply about the financing of public retirement plans was titled “Mortality Age Patterns: Trends and Projections.”

Description: A glossary of terms.

Description: Essay reforming healthcare where participants have a vested interest in reaching the best answer.

Description: Feature article presenting a synopsis of the Social Insurance and Public Finance Pension Sub-committee.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing Social Security Earnings Base and Payroll Tax Rates, Social Security Wage Index and Maximum PIA, other Social Security program data, Medicare data, Railroad Retirement Earnings Base and Payroll Tax Rates, and the number of recipients and average monthly OASDI benefits.

Description: This article encourages pension actuaries to read a 16-page paper, available on the Internet from the National Commission on Retirement Policy, regarding the challenges of the next decade on how to put federal programs for senior citizens on a sound financial footing.