Social Insurance and Public Finance Section

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2025

May

• A Review of the Article “Principles in the Design of an Optimal Retirement Income Security System" by Robert L. Brown, FCIA, FSA, ACAS, FIA (Hons), Ph.D.
• Health Care Financing: Exploring a Solution

2024

October

• Social Security Changes for 2025
• Overview of Military Health in the United States

May

• Changes at SSA—Part 2
• Reforming Social Security: Lessons from Sweden
  This article first appeared in the April issue of Retirement Section News. It is reprinted here with permission.

2023

October

• Social Security Changes for 2024

September

• Guide to Domestic and International Paid Family and Medical Leave Programs

May

• Money Matters: Making Medicaid Payment More Effective Through Population-Based Payment

2022

October

• Social Security Changes for 2023

September