BC Prof Named Chair of Social Security Panel
The Drucker Chair of Management Sciences at the Carroll School of Management, Alicia Munnell, has been named the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Board’s 2015 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods. The Technical Panel on Assumption and Methods was created in order to review the assumptions and methods used by the Social Security trustees in their annual report on the program’s financial status.
Congress created the Social Security Advisory Board with the charge of advising the President, the Congress and the Commissioner of Social Security on matters relating to the nation’s retirement and disability systems. Its mandates also include increasing public understanding of the Social Security system. The President, the Senate and the House of Representatives appoint members of the advisory board on a bipartisan basis.
