Costs of administering old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) are of interest both to specialists in income maintenance and to the general public. This article presents a summary of these expenses compared with several important bases: Contribution income, benefit payments, and taxable payroll. An index is developed and used to analyze changes in administrative expense levels from...

Supplementary section for Chapter 1 of Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. Copyright notice: Permission is granted to copy and distribute this material for educational purposes only, provided that this copyright notice remains attached. The security techniques described thus far are well suited to a public environment, like consumer electronic commerce. ...