: a person who calculates insurance and annuity premiums, reserves, and dividends
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Social Security’s actuaries project the fund the program relies on to pay retirement benefits will be depleted in 2033.—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024 Employers are also looking at reining in spending on prescription medications, said Eric Miller, a consulting actuary with Segal, a benefits consulting firm that works mainly with large public sector employers and unions.—Tami Luhby, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024 Nationally, it's estimated that 7% to 8% of all long-term disability claims are related to mental health, according to a testimony provided by Richard Leavitt, a consulting actuary at the Smith Group, a disability reinsurance risk manager and consultant.—Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024 In that report, the office of the program’s chief actuary said undocumented immigrants paid as much as $13 billion in payroll taxes to the program’s trust funds in 2010, while about $1 billion in benefit payments were attributed to unauthorized work.—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for actuary
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borrowed from Latin āctuārius "shorthand writer, keeper of accounts," alteration (with -u- from the u-stem action noun āctus) of *āctārius, from āctum "public transaction, record" + -ārius-ary entry 1 — more at act entry 1
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