September 2019 Board Meeting

09/26/2019 - 09/27/2019

Sept. 26:
The public session consisted of a roundtable discussion on research featuring three SSA executives from three different components with responsibility for internal program research, and data analysis, and predictive modeling.

Sept. 27:
The 2019 TPAM presented a summary of their recommendations on the assumptions and methods used by the Social Security Trustees to develop the annual report on the financial status of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance trust funds.

Meeting Agenda Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

The Panel made several recommendations for the assumptions that fed into the Trustees’ projections, namely:

lower total fertility rates
faster rate of mortality improvement
immigration as a stable share of the population
slower real wage growth
lower unemployment rates and labor force participation among some age-sex groups
lower interest rates
lower disability incidence