[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 10091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4398]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security; Meeting
AGENCY: Social Security Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this
notice announces Public Meetings to be held by the 1994-95 Advisory
Council on Social Security (the Council).
DATES: Wednesday, March 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday,
March 9, 1995, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA),
1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036, (202) 857-9500.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail--Dan Wartonick, 1994-95
Advisory Council on Social Security, Room 624D, Hubert H. Humphrey
Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201; By
telephone--(202) 205-4861; By telefax--(202) 205-4879.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Purpose
Under section 706 of the Social Security Act (the Act), the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) appoints the
Council every 4 years. The Council examines issues affecting the Social
Security Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) programs,
as well as the Medicare program and impacts on the Medicaid program,
which were created under the Act.
In addition, the Secretary has asked the Council specifically to
address the following:
Social Security financing issues, including developing
recommendations for improving the long-range financial status of the
OASDI programs;
General program issues such as the relative equity and
adequacy of Social Security benefits for persons at various income
levels, in various family situations, and various age cohorts, taking
into account such factors as the increased labor force participation of
women, lower marriage rates, increased likelihood of divorce, and
higher poverty rates of aged women.
In addressing these topics, the Secretary suggested that the
Council may wish to analyze the relative roles of the public and
private sectors in providing retirement income, how policies in both
sectors affect retirement decisions and the economic status of the
elderly, and how the disability insurance program provisions and the
availability of health insurance and health care costs affect such
matters.
The Council is composed of 12 members in addition to the chairman:
Robert Ball, Joan Bok, Ann Combs, Edith Fierst, Gloria Johnson, Thomas
Jones, George Kourpias, Sylvester Schieber, Gerald Shea, Marc Twinney,
Fidel Vargas, and Carolyn Weaver. The chairman is Edward Gramlich.
The Council met previously on June 24-25 (59 FR 30367), July 29,
1994 (59 FR 35942), September 29-30 (59 FR 47146), October 21-22 (59 FR
51451), November 18-19 ( 59 FR 55272), January 27 (60 FR 3416) and
February 10-11 (60 FR 5433).
II. Agenda
The Council will consider views and comments from the public on the
following subjects:
Achieving long-term stability in financing the Social
Security program including possible increases in contribution rates;
Changing the normal and early retirement ages and other
approaches to lowering benefits;
Ensuring adequate retirement income and determining the
role of private pensions and savings; and
Ensuring equitable treatment under Social Security for
dependents, disabled, survivors as well as retirees.
The agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
The meeting is open to the public to the extent that space is
available. Public officials, representatives of professional and
advocacy organizations, concerned citizens, and Social Security and SSI
recipients may speak and submit written comments on the issues
considered by the Council. Interpreter services for persons with
hearing impairments will be provided.
In order to ensure that as many speakers as possible are given the
opportunity to speak in the time allotted for public comment, each
person will be limited to a maximum of 5 minutes. Because of the time
limitations, individuals are requested to present comments in their
order of importance. A written copy of comments should be prepared and
presented to us, preferably in advance of the meeting. To ensure our
full understanding and consideration of all of each speaker's concerns,
we welcome written comments that provide a detailed and elaborative
discussion of the subjects presented orally, as well as further written
comments on other issues not presented orally. Persons unable to attend
the meeting also may submit written comments. Written comments will
receive the same consideration as oral comments.
To request to speak, please telephone the Council at the
information contact shown above, and provide the following: (1) Name;
(2) business or residence address; (3) telephone or fax number
(including area code) during normal working hours; and (4) capacity in
which presentation will be made; i.e., public official, representative
of an organization, or citizen. For planning purposes, we will
appreciate receiving requests to speak 7 days before the date of the
meeting.
A transcript of the meeting will be available to the public on an
at-cost-of duplication basis. The transcript can be ordered from the
Executive Director of the Council. (Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Program Nos. 93.802, Social Security-Disability Insurance;
93.803, Social Security-Retirement Insurance; 93.805, Social Security-
Survivors Insurance.) The transcript and all written submissions will
become part of the record of these meetings.
Dated: February 13, 1995.
David C. Lindeman,
Executive Director, 1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security.
[FR Doc. 95-4398 Filed 2-22-95; 8:45 am]
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