Description: The SOA Research Institute Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Program and Health Section Council Committees are seeking researchers to compare the intended effects of the ACA and its amendments since the implementation of each provision.

Description: This e-course describes social insurance programs, their operation and the current issues they are facing.

Description: The article first tries to determine a consensus view of what social security should accomplish and then tries to measure how well the current level of benefits succeeds in meeting these goals. Assessing benefit adequacy is an essential element in putting the overall program on a sound financing footing.

Description: Discover a comparison of U.S. and international mandated leave programs which mandate employers to provide a minimum level of benefits to employees for qualifying leaves of absence, such as parental leave or medical leave.

Description: Feature article explaining voluntary Social Security coverage of state and local government employees.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Mortality Experience under the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance System by Louis O. Shudde. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: In this discussion, members of the panel, provided case history illustrations of what can be done by way of actuarial service in legislative and administrative matters.

Description: The article describes the insurance industry's preparation for pandemic events and the public finance response.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses the critical issues of the financing for the Social Security systems in the U.S. and Canada. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents different governmental approaches to providing financial security and health benefits for retirees, the problems associated with aging populations and the reduction in resources available to meet their needs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.