January 2016 Board Meeting
01/15/2016
The Board met with Social Security Administration (SSA) Chief Actuary Steve Goss. Mr. Goss talked about the recently completed 2015 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods, recounted previous technical panels, and offered his opinion about building on previous efforts.The Board next met with Michael Wiseman, Research Professor of Public Policy, Public Administration, and Economics, George Washington University. Mr. Wiseman highlighted the work he will be doing with the Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB). He explained that he will be developing recommendations for post-BOND SSA policy experimentation. In the afternoon, the Board spoke via video conference with Robert Klopp, SSA’s Deputy Commissioner of Systems. Mr. Klopp updated the Board on SSA’s Disability Case Processing System (DCPS). Mr. Klopp stated that the frequently delayed project was coming to completion more quickly because of new software simplification.