The Buffin Foundation has agreed to sponsor a communications project to be undertaken in cooperation with the Washington-based National Academy of Social Insurance (the Academy). The purpose of this project is to educate specific target audiences on how to interpret…
The Washington-based American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) recently released an updated version of its Issue Brief Raising the Social Security Retirement Age. The AAA had previously issued a public policy statement in 2008 advocating for an increase in Social Security’s…
The 2021 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds presents information regarding the financial status of the U.S. Social Security system. At the end of 2020, the OASDI program…
The United States Social Security system is expected to release its 2021 Annual Trustees Report shortly. It is widely anticipated that the report will indicate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the system’s short-range and long-range financial condition and…
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has issued a recent Working Paper Financing Gaps in Social Protection: Global Estimates and Strategies for Developing Countries in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond. The paper covers 134 developing countries that were included…
The Office of the Chief Actuary for the US Social Security system has released an information note that provides an updated baseline for the actuarial status of the OASDI trust funds, reflecting the estimated effects of the covid-19 pandemic and…
The 2020 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds presents information regarding the financial status of the U.S. Social Security system. At the end of 2019, the OASDI program…
The French Institute of Actuaries will host an international actuarial colloquium in Paris in May with the theme Individual Choices facing Societal Changes. The organizers of this international colloquium have posed a question that represents a direct challenge to the…
The National Academy of Social Insurance is a Washington-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose membership comprises the nation’s leading experts on social insurance. The Academy’s mission is to advance solutions to national social and economic challenges and to increase public understanding…
The Social Security 2100 Act, which was previously discussed in the August 2014 edition of Commentary, has been modified and updated. This proposed legislation would strengthen the United States Social Security system, known as Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI),…