We are writing to notify you, per the requirements of section 709 of the Social Security Act, that the Federal Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund is now projected to become inadequate within the next 10 years. As shown in the 2010 OASDI Trustees Report, which we are issuing today and a copy of which is attached, the assets of the DI Trust Fund are projected to fall below 20 percent of annual ...

The paper deals with issues that have been found important for the treatment of financial services in Swedish price indices. In particular the definition of the unit transaction for fund and stock-brokering services with charge proportional to transaction value is crucial. Such services have more than a negligible extent in Sweden, also for consumers, and different definitions of the unit trans...

The objective of the study was to identify main factors influencing farmers’ willingness take up agricultural insurance and participate in a mutual fund for non-insurable risks Czech Republic. Responses from 214 representative farms were processed using descriptive statistics, paired t-tests, binary logistic regression, contingency analysis. regression model showed influences area, distrust com...

Clinical paths in Bulgaria are used not as a method for quality assessment, but as an instrument to fund hospitals. Their use and incompleteness cause limited access of all Bulgarian citizens to the international treatment guidelines. That way quality of treatment worsens and mortality increases. The Bulgarian system of regulated medical guidelines by all therapeutic and surgical lines still su...

N. Gengler,* A. Tijani, and G.R. Wiggans *Passage des Déportés 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium phone + 32 81 62 22 06, fax + 32 81 62 21 15 e-mail: [email protected] National Fund for Scientific Research, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Animal Science Unit, Gembloux Agricultural University, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville...

Insurance claims have deductibles, which must be considered when pricing for insurance premium. Deductibles may cause censoring and truncation to the frequencies, severities, and peril types of observed insurance claims. In practice, the regression approach is often used with deductible amount included as an explanatory variable inside a frequency-severity model, so that the resulting coefficie...