United States.

FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL

SECURITY SYSTEM

21-012

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

FEBRUARY 4, 7, 8, AND 9, 1983

FEBRUARY 9, 1983

PART 2

Serial 98-5

Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1983

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois, Chairman

CONTENTS

Press releases of Thursday, January 6, 1983, and Friday, January 28, 1983,
announcing hearings

Page

1

WITNESSES

American Academy of Actuaries, Committee on Social Insurance, A. Norman
Crowder III and Dwight K. Bartlett..

511

American Association of Retired Persons, Cyril F. Brickfield
American Council of Life Insurance, Kenneth R. Austin.

182

236

American Farm Bureau Federation, Leon B. Enfield and Grace Ellen Rice
American Federation of Government Employees, Kenneth T. Blaylock
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations,
Public Employee Department, Kenneth T. Blaylock

American Foreign Service Association, Robert M. Beers....
American Hospital Association, Jack W. Owen....

554

162

162

371

662

American Jewish Congress and American Jewish Committee, Florence Galkin
American Nurses' Association, Inc., Betty Skaggs and Tom Nickels
American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Moe Biller.

246

646

255

American Society for Personnel Administration, Richard Schulz and Ronald
C. Pilenzo..

424

American Society of Pension Actuaries, Gerald D. Facciani
Andolsek, L. J., National Association of Retired Federal Employees...

505

366

Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans, Social Security Committee,
Dale R. Detlefs.

520

Austin, Kenneth R., Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa, on behalf of the
American Council of Life Insurance..

236

Baker, Dave, International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO.
Bannister, Robert, National Association of Home Builders

689

416

Bartlett, Dwight K., Committee on Social Insurance, American Academy of
Actuaries....

511

Baum, Sandra R., Wellesley College.

796

Bedell, Hon. Berkley, a Representative in Congress from the State of Iowa..
Beers, Robert M., American Foreign Service Association...
Biller, Moe, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO

29

371

255

Blaylock, Kenneth T., American Federation of Government Employees, and
Public Employee Department, AFL-CIO...

152

Bower, Rodney A., International Federation of Professional and Technical
Engineers, AFL-CIO....

776

Bowling Proprietors Association of America, Richard Davis and James T.
Devine.....

770

Brickfield, Cyril F., American Association of Retired Persons
Burton, Delores. (See, Federally Employed Women, Inc.)

182

Bush, Ernest A., Greers Ferry, Ark.

487

California Public Employees' Retirement System, Robert F. Carlson.
Carlson, Jack, National Association of Realtors..

405

139

Carlson, Robert F., California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Robert T. Thompson
Charleston (W. Va.) Area Medical Center, James C. Crews

Clarke, Hon. James McClure, a Representative in Congress from the State of
North Carolina