Nancy J. Altman to Speak on "Saving Social Security" at the Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club Meeting on June 23, 2016

Nancy Altman is the author of The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).  She is also the head of an organization called "Social Security Works" and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of beneficiary rights. Additionally, Nancy is on the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a membership organization of over 800 of the nation’s leading experts on social insurance. In the mid-1980’s, she was on the organizing committee and the first board of directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance.  Nancy was on the staff of Senator John Dansforth when he served on the Senate Finance Committee.  She was Special Assistant to Alan Greeenspan when he head the National Commission on Social Security Reform in the mid-1980s.  A lawyer by training, Nancy has taught pension and social security benefits law at Harvard Law School and similar courses at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.  She will talk on why she believes Social Security benefits should be increased.