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What's new at EBRI this month:
EBRI's 1998 Annual Report
Small-Business Owners React to Social Security Individual Accounts: A new
survey released by EBRI December 7 finds that most small-business owners are unaware of
how they might have to help operate Social Security individual accounts, and one-fifth of
those who favor them are unwilling to pay any extra administrative costs.
EBRI Issue Brief, December 1998: "Sources of Health Insurance and
Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 1998 Current Population
Survey"
The Hurdles to Privatizing Social Security: EBRI's November 1998 Issue Brief
examines "Individual Social Security Accounts: Issues in Assessing Administrative
Feasibility and Costs." The analysis -- the first of its kind -- provides specific
information about how and why individual investment accounts would require fundamental
changes in the way the existing Social Security system is operated, how those changes
would affect employer administrative complexity and cost, and how long it might take to
implement a new system due to the diversity of the U.S. workforce.
Consumer Health Education Council (CHEC): The Employee Benefit
Research Institute Education and Research Fund has posted the Srategic Plan of CHEC and a CHEC Tools and Resources page.
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What's new in employee benefits:
- The American Compensation Association provides listings of human resources-related
congressional bills with links to the bills and to background information on the bills.
- Click here for the latest News
Online compiled weekly by the staff of Pensions & Investments.
- Late-breaking news items
from the weekly publication Business Insurance are posted every Friday before the
Monday issue date.
- Click here for the latest
available issue of the Washington Status Report from the research staff of Hewitt
Associates.
- Click here for the daily edition of the
Society for Human Resource Management's newspaper, HR News Online.
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(12/29/98) The Heritage Foundation has released three policy papers on Social Security
reform:
(12/24/98) The
Economic Status of the Elderly on the Eve of Social Security Reform by Timothy M.
Smeeding and James P. Smith has been posted on the Democratic Leadership Council's site.
(12/23/98) The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy has posted the executive
summary and the full report: How Social
Security Short-Changes Women by Naomi Lopez with Dominique M. Lazanski.
(12/22/98) The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants released an analysis
of the major options to reform Social Security titled: Understanding Social Security: The Issues
and Alternatives.
(12/21/98) The Federal Trade Commission launches an Investment Education
Campaign.
(12/21/98) Hewitt Associates has posted: Employers Face
Significant Health Care Hikes in 1999 Following Modest '98 Increases.
(12/21/98) Hewitt Associates has released: Survey Results: Employee Stock
Purchase Plans in the U.S.
(12/18/98) Click here
to read the White House Conference on Social Security participants' statements.
(12/17/98) Health
Insurance Coverage and the Uninsured by William S. Custer is available at the Web site
of the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA).
(12/16/98) The latest issue of PolicyWire.com concerns reform of America's Social
Security system: The Walls to Reform Are Crumbling.
(12/16/98) Two new policy papers from the
Heritage Foundation: Social
Security's Rate of Return: A Reply to Our Critics by William W. Beach and Gareth G.
Davis and Why Americans
Should Own Their Social Security Retirement Benefits by David C. John.
(12/15/98) The U.S. Census Bureau has posted Employee Retirement Systems of State and
Local Governments. The Internet tables show data on state and local government
employee retirement systems summarized for the nation and each state, for fiscal year
1996-1997.
(12/14/98) The National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) provides an abstract and a
brief except from Wealth and Income
Consequences of Employee Ownership, which presents significant research on
employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
(12/11/98) This Week in IntellectualCapital.com: Who Should Invest
Social Security? by Michael Calabrese considers the future of social insurance in
America. The discusssion, which includes a comment from Dallas Salisbury, is followed by a
special moderated discussion section for those who wish to comment.
(12/11/98) Defined
Benefit vs. Defined Contribution, a comparison chart by Kelly Olsen and Jack VanDerhei
reprinted from the Employee Benefit Research Institute's Special Report and Issue Brief
Number 190 is available at Workforce Online.
(12/10/98) Dr. Frank McArdle shares his insights on public policy initiatives of
interest to College and University Personnel Association members: McArdle Predicts That 1999 Will Be Year of
Reform.
(12/9/98) "The
Costs of Managing Individual Social Security Accounts" is a recent Backgrounder
from the Heritage Foundation by David C. John and Gareth G. Davis.
(12/9/98) Employment Policy Foundation's December 1998 edition of Fact &
Fallacy: Contemporary Issues in Employment and Workplace Policy discusses "The Advantages of Social Security Privatization."
(12/8/98) Click
here to read Social Adequacy and Individual Equity in Social Security, Fall
1998 Issue Brief from the American Academy of Actuaries.
(12/8/98) 401(k) Plan Sponsorship Growth
1994-1998, a study by the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America in conjunction
with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc., was conducted to determine the frequency of 401(k)
plan sponsorship among companies with 100 or more employees.
(12/7/98) The Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress has published its Summary Of Revenue Provisions Contained In
Legislation Enacted During The 105th Congress. See also the Errata issued by the Committee.
(12/7/98) Crossing
the Line: More 401(k) Plan Sponsors are Taking Investment Education a Big Step Further by
Offering Employees Advice is the title of an article in the December 1998 issue of
CFO Magazine.
(12/4/98) Click here for information
on the White House Conference on Social Security to be held December 8-9 in
Washington, D.C.
(12/2/98) "In response to growing concerns about understanding the impact of
regulation on consumers, business, and government, the American Enterprise Institute and
the Brookings Institution have established the new AEI-Brookings
Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. The primary purpose of the Center is to hold
lawmakers and regulators accountable for their decisions by providing thoughtful,
objective analyses of existing regulatory programs and new regulatory proposals."
(12/2/98) You can now access Brookings Institution Policy Brief #40 by Michael Kremer, Restructuring Social
Security Taxes, on the Web.
(12/1/98) The Effect of Raising the
FICA Tax in 1999: An Econometric Analysis is available on the Web site of the
National Association of Manufacturers.
(12/1/98) Click
here to read "A Benefits Scheme for New Media's Freelance Warriors, " a
daily briefing on BusinessWeek Online November 23, 1998.
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