96-8973. 1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security; Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15858-15859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8973]



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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security; Meeting

AGENCY: Social Security Administration.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this 
notice announces a meeting of the 1994-95 Advisory Council on Social 
Security (the Council). Relatively short notice is provided because the 
Chairman wanted to schedule the meeting as soon as possible so as not 
to further delay the Council's report.

DATES: Saturday, April 13, 1996, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESS: Sheraton City Centre, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, 
Washington D.C., 20037, [phone].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail--Nick Curabba, 1994-95 
Advisory Council on Social Security, Suite 705, 1825 Connecticut 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009; By telephone--[phone]; By 
telefax--[phone].

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

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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, 1994 (59 FR 30367), July 
29, (59 FR 35942), September 29-30 (59 FR 47146), October 21-22 (59 FR 
51451), November 18-19 (59 FR 55272), January 27, 1995 (60 FR 3416), 
February 10-11 (60 FR 5433), March 8-9 (60 FR 10091), March 10-11 (60 
FR 10090), April 21-22 (60 FR 18419), May 19-20 (60 FR 24961), June 2-3 
(60 FR 27372) July 27-28 (60 FR 35097), August 31-September 1 (60 FR 
41142), October 12-13 (60 FR 50234) December 14 (60 FR 62129).

II. Agenda

    The following topics will be presented and discussed:
     Previously developed plans that would revise the OASDI 
program along different lines;
     The preliminary findings and recommendations of the 
Advisory Council;
     Other issues before the Advisory Council.
    The meeting is open to the public to the extent that space is 
available. Interpreter services for persons with hearing impairments 
will be provided. 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.)

    Dated: April 5, 1996.
Timothy Kelley,
Acting Executive Director, 1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security.
[FR Doc. 96-8973 Filed 4-5-96; 8:45 am]
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