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• Report on Trends and Issues in

Retirement Saving;

• Report on Assumptions and

Methods used in projecting the financial

status of the Social Security Trust

Funds;

• Alternative measures for taxing

Social Security Benefits;

• Outline of options/issues relating to

mandatory/voluntary ‘‘second pillar’’

arrangements; and

• Overview of tax policy issues

affecting voluntary retirement saving.

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 SecurityRetirement Insurance; 93.805, Social

Security-Survivors Insurance.)

Dated: February 13, 1995.

David C. Lindeman,

Executive Director, 1994–95 Advisory Council

on Social Security.

[FR Doc. 95–4397 Filed 2–22–95; 8:45 am]

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1994–95 Advisory Council on Social

Security; Meeting

AGENCY: Social Security Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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 SecurityRetirement 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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