Retirement
The Academy’s Retirement Practice Council (RPC) is a trusted source of expertise for policymakers and regulators tackling important policies regarding Social Security, public and private pension plans, other retirement benefits and investment strategies, and related lifetime security policy issues.
The RPC provides clear and objective technical guidance to help create a future of security and stability for U.S. organizations and retirees.
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Multiemployer Pension Plans
Multiemployer plans’ funding, financial reporting, financial risks, and plan design.
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Pension Accounting and Finance
Financial reporting for retirement plans, including updates from national and international accounting standards bodies, policy changes, and new regulations.
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Public Pension Plans
State and local government employee benefit plans’ funding, financial reporting, financial risks, design, and actuarial standards of practice related to public plans.
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Retirement Policy
Long term retirement policy, including the effects of legislation and regulations on retirement benefits, and emerging issues affecting retirement plans.
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Social Security
Financial sustainability and other topics related to the Social Security program.
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Issue Brief
Issue Brief Lays Out Information to Help Assess Value of Pension Buyouts
The Public Plans Committee released an issue brief, Public Pension Plans: Helping Members Evaluate Buyout Programs and Other Lump Sums. The issue brief suggests critical information that would…
Policy Paper
Issue Paper—Immigration and Social Security
The Social Security Committee has released a public policy issue paper, Immigration and Social Security. Immigration is a crucial component to the trajectory of the financial condition of the…
Policy Paper
Pension Committee Releases Major Issue Paper on ERISA
The Pension Committee released an issue paper, ERISA: 50 Years of Shaping the Single-Employer Defined Benefit Landscape. It discusses the broad impacts of The Employee Retirement Income Security…
Topics: Retirement
Issue Brief
An Actuarial Perspective on the 2024 Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security Committee released an issue brief, An Actuarial Perspective on the 2024 Social Security Trustees Report. This detailed brief provides perspective on the latest detailed annual…
Comment / Letter
RPC Comments to Senate HELP Committee on Self-Employed Workers
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…
Policy Paper
Improving Retirement Outcomes: Demographic Considerations
The Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation Committee released a policy paper, Improving Retirement Outcomes: Demographic Considerations, which discusses retirement inequities and how current…
Topics: Retirement
Intersector Group Releases Notes from April Virtual Meetings with PBGC, Treasury and IRS
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…
Topics: Retirement
Comment / Letter
Council Comments on Defined Benefit Pensions RFI
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…
Topics: Retirement
Policy Paper
Committee Releases One-pager on 2024 Social Security Trustees Report
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…
Topics: Social Security
Comment / Letter