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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Social Security Administration

 

1994 Advisory Council on Social Security; Meeting

AGENCY: Social Security Administration, HHS.

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 Advisory Council on Social 
Security (the Council).

DATES: June 24, 1994, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; June 25, 1994, 9 a.m. to 1 
p.m.

ADDRESS: Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC 20036, (202) 939-4123.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Wartonick, 1994 Advisory Council 
on Social Security, room 639H, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201, (202) 205-4861.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. 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 and Medicaid programs, 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 is to report to the Secretary, and such reports shall 
thereupon be transmitted to the Congress and to the Board of Trustees 
of each of the Trust Funds.

II. Agenda

    The Council will discuss:
     Economic well-being of today's elderly and those soon to 
retire;
     Prognoses for baby-boom cohorts and beyond;
     Issues facing the Social Security program;
     Issues concerning pensions and other retirement saving; 
and
     Matters relating to technical panels of experts.
    The agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    The meeting is open to the public to the extent that space is 
available, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on June 24, 1994. That day's morning 
session will deal only with internal personnel and administrative 
matters of the Council not relating to the substantive purpose of the 
meeting. Therefore, under the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 
552b(c)(2)), that session is exempt from being open to the public. 
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 Designated Federal Officer 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: June 3, 1994.
David Lindeman,
Designated Federal Officer, 1994 Advisory, Council on Social Security.
[FR Doc. 94-14056 Filed 6-12-94; 8:45 am]
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