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OUTREACH & NEWS
 Contingencies Looks Ahead to 2025
The January/February Contingencies leads with a look at what’s ahead for the actuarial profession and the Academy in 2025. Also, a feature on how technological innovation has thrown up new hurdles to the regulatory process, a piece on how optimizing resources or enhancing processes can help maximize value in health care costs; views from actuarial affinity groups representing the diversity of the profession; and Darrell Knapp’s first President’s Message on the value of Academy membership.
ICYMI-Actuarial Update and Life Perspectives
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The December Actuarial Update highlights several Academy events coming this year, including an “Insuring the Future: Insurance Investment Summit” set for May in New York City, and “Hill visits” in all practice areas with federal policymakers in April in Washington, D.C.
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The Winter Life Perspectives also previews the Insurance Investment Summit, and the Life Practice Council’s plans to participate in Academy “Hill visits” in April. Also in the issue, December’s PBR Bootcamp webinar on VM-31, and recent legislative and regulatory activity.
Christian Benjaminson Named to ERISA Advisory Council
 Academy volunteer and past Multiemployer Plans Committee Chairperson Christian Benjaminson was named to the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, which provides advice on policies and regulations affecting employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Benjaminson is a vice president and principal consulting actuary at Cheiron Inc., primarily advising multiemployer plans in the trucking, manufacturing, construction, communications, and grocery industries. His appointment follows outgoing council member Tonya Manning, also a longtime Academy retirement volunteer. Benjaminson discussed multiemployer issues in a November 2021 episode of the Academy’s podcast, Actuary Voices.
Social Security Chief Actuary Stephen Goss Retires, Capping 51 Years of Distinguished Public Service
Goss at the Envision Tomorrow Social Security session
Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the 2013 recipient of the Academy’s Robert J. Myers Public Service Award, is retiring today, Jan. 3. “We wish our chief actuary, Stephen Goss, all the best in his retirement after 51 years of outstanding public service,” Acting SSA Commissioner Carolyn Colvin posted on X. Goss has been an active volunteer with the Academy’s Social Security Committee, and was most recently a featured speaker at October’s Envision Tomorrow retirement session on Social Security, which aired nationally on C-SPAN.
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