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.
According to the Social Security trustees, Social Security’s combined trust fund reserves are projected to become depleted in 2034, potentially leading to a forced 20+ percent cut in payable benefits unless legislative changes are adopted to prevent it. What might those changes look like? How would you address the solvency issue?
Take the Challenge: In the Academy’s Social Security Challenge, develop your own personal reform approach by traveling through a virtual town where you’ll learn residents’ different views on reform ideas and information about their impacts, and puzzle through choices.
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According to the Social Security trustees, Social Security’s combined trust fund reserves are projected to become depleted in 2034, potentially leading to a forced 20+ percent cut in payable benefits unless legislative changes are adopted to prevent it. What might those changes look like? How would you address the solvency issue?
Take the Challenge: In the Academy’s Social Security Challenge, develop your own personal reform approach by traveling through a virtual town where you’ll learn residents’ different views on reform ideas and information about their impacts, and puzzle through choices.Filter by
Retirement Resources
Policy Paper
Public Sector Workers Not Covered by Social Security
A new policy paper, Public Sector Workers Not Covered by Social Security: Implications for Their Retirement Security, examines how public sector entities seeking exemption from Social Security must…
Topics: Retirement
Policy Paper
Retirement and Gig Workers
Retirement security issues surrounding gig workers are significant and complex, with limited data regarding them, what programs are accessible to them, and how well they take advantage of available…
Topics: Retirement
Policy Paper
Climate Data: Actuarial Perspectives on Quality, Challenges, and Effective Risk Quantification
The Climate Change Joint Committee released a policy paper examining the wide variety of actuarial data challenges in climate-related risk quantification. While reflecting the current emphasis on…
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
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
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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
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Committee Releases Issue Paper on Social Security and Financially Disadvantaged Groups
The Social Security Committee released an issue paper, Social Security and Financially Disadvantaged Groups, focusing on how benefits received by different groups are shaped by features of the…
Policy Paper
Actuarial Organizations&
Actuarial Organizations’ Collaborative Intersector Group Releases Notes from Meeting With Treasury and IRS The Intersector Group published notes from its May 2022 conference call with the Treasury…
Topics: Retirement
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