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 Examines 2022 Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security Committee released an issue brief on the 2022 Social Security Trustees Report examining the social insurance program’s long-term solvency issues.
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An Actuarial Perspective on the 2022 Social Security Trustees Report
Social Security Committee issue brief on 2022 Social Security Trustees Report examining the latest detailed annual assessment by the federal government of the program’s solvency.Committee Releases Issue Brief on Funding Rules Considerations
The Pension Committee published an issue brief highlighting public policy considerations involved in potential modifications to single employer pension plan funding rules.
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Issue Brief on Public Policy Considerations for Funding Rules Proposals
Pension Committee issue brief highlighting key considerations around potential modifications to single employer pension plan funding rules.Intersector Group Releases February Meeting Notes With PBGC
The Intersector Group released notes from its February 2022 virtual meeting with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
Topics: Retirement
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National Retirement Policy—Guiding Principles Series
Series of Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue briefs published between July 2019 and March 2022 laying out guiding principles for a comprehensive national retirement policy.
Topics: Retirement
Committee Presents Series of Issue Briefs Laying out Guiding Principles for Comprehensive National Retirement Policy
The Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee completed a series of issue briefs laying out guiding principles for a comprehensive national retirement policy, begun with July 2019’s…
Topics: Retirement
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Committee Releases Issue Brief on Aligning Plan Design with Effective Employee Engagement
The Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee released an issue brief, Retirement Policy: Aligning Plan Design with Effective Employee Engagement, which analyzes how retirement program…
Topics: Retirement
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Issue Brief on Aligning Plan Design with Effective Employee Engagement
Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue brief analyzing how retirement program design can impact decisions that participants make with the goal of improving retirement security.
Topics: Retirement