NASI Experts Available to Comment on 2008 Social Security and Medicare Truste... ( Brief on Social Security at A HRE...)

NASI Experts Available to Comment on 2008 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports

Date:3/25/2008

Brief on Social Security at http://www.nasi.org

WASHINGTON, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Experts on Social Security and Medicare are available to comment on the implications of the 2008 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports immediately following their release. All experts listed below are members of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).

NASI is a nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on Social Security, Medicare, and other programs. The Academy does not lobby or take positions on policy issues. Individual members have diverse views; individuals' views do not represent the official position(s) of the Academy.

An explanatory brief, Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2008 Trustees Report, will be available today on the Academy's website at http://www.nasi.org. A brief on the Medicare trustees report will be available shortly.

SOCIAL SECURITY EXPERTS:

Henry J. Aaron

Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow,

The Brookings Institution

Phone: 202-797-6128

Email: haaron@brookings.edu

Nancy J. Altman

Author, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble

Phone: 301-229-2651

Email: njalt@aol.com

Jeffrey R. Brown

Karnes Professor of Finance, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Member, Social Security Advisory Board