The Retirement Practice Council’s Social Security and Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation committees sent a joint comment letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions regarding portable benefits for self-employed workers and other individuals in nontraditional working arrangements.

The P/C Committee on Equity and Fairness sent a comment letter to the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) on the DISB’s recently released draft market conduct study, Evaluating Unintentional Bias in Private Passenger Automobile Insurance.

The Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation Committee released a policy paper, Improving Retirement Outcomes: Demographic Considerations, which discusses retirement inequities and how current retirement plan design elements and policies may inadvertently disadvantage certain cohorts of individuals. In tandem with the paper, the committee released a high-level executive summary.

Members of the Climate Change Joint Committee presented at the SOA Health Conference. The session explored various climate equity-related considerations for actuaries, including an introduction to the range of equity issues that climate change and the increasing frequency of climatic events may pose to actuaries.

The Health Equity Committee presented at the 2024 SOA Health Meeting on “Improving Data Analysis Using a Health Equity Lens.” The session explored the intersection of health equity and data, including stakeholder perspectives and a Medicaid-focused case study.

The Health Practice Council’s Active Benefits Committee and Individual and Small Group Markets Committee responded to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions’ (HELP) request for information regarding portable benefits for self-employed workers and other individuals in nontraditional working arrangements.

The Prudential Regulation Committee submitted comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on its public consultation on climate risk supervisory guidance – ICP guidance and supporting material.

The actuarial organizations’ collaborative Intersector Group released notes of its April 2024 virtual meetings with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service.

The Academy's C1 Subcommittee provided comments to the NAIC's Risk-Based Capital Investment Risk and Evaluation (E) Working Group on the exposed interim residual tranche proposal by Everlake Life Insurance Company.

The Casualty Practice Council submitted comments on the exposure draft of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 7, Analysis of Life, Health, or Property/Casualty Insurance Cash Flow Risk.

The Prudential Regulation Committee sent a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Capital Adequacy (E) Task Force on the exposure draft of Risk-Based Capital Preamble, 2024-16-CA.

The ERM/ORSA Committee submitted comments to the Actuarial Standards Board regarding the proposed revision of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 7, Analysis of Life, Health, or Property/Casualty Insurance Cash Flow Risk.

The Retirement Practice Council and Pension Committee responded to a request for information (RFI) by the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee regarding ways to bolster the defined benefit pension system.

The Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Issues Task Force provided comments to the Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) regarding LATF's “AAT Reinsurance Exposure 031724”. 

The Social Security Committee released Highlights from the 2024 Social Security Trustees Report, a one-page illustration detailing the latest annual report on the current and projected financial status of the trust funds.

The Life Experience Committee released a resource and discussion guide, Utilization Assumptions of Guaranteed Living Benefits for Deferred Annuities. The guide suggests some reasons why there may be a cohort that never utilizes its guaranteed living benefits (GLBs). It also provides sources of information on how to develop reasonable assumptions regarding GLB withdrawals.

Academy Casualty Policy Analyst Rob Fischer, Senior Fellow Rich Gibson, and Will Davis of the South Carolina Department of Insurance presented at the Casualty Actuarial Society's Spring Meeting on current and future public policy considerations, covering how the current legislative and regulatory environment continues to evolve and respond to changes in actuarial practice and the broader insurance and financial environments. The presentation covered topics including the NAIC, homeowners insurance, AI governance, the National Flood Insurance Program, and bias.

The Medicare Committee released an issue brief, Medicare’s Financial Condition: Beyond Actuarial Balance, that examines the findings of the 2024 Medicare Trustees Report with respect to program solvency and sustainability.

The Casualty Practice Council submitted comments on the exposure draft of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 12, Risk Classification (for All Practice Areas).

The Variable Annuity Reserves and Capital Subcommittee sent comments to the NAIC’s Variable Annuities Capital and Reserve (E/A) Subgroup on the exposure draft of APF 2024-07 that proposes updates to the VM-21 Standard Projection Amount assumptions.