Rebecca Ross

EA, MAAA

Actuary

Berwyn, PA, US

Rebecca is an Enrolled Actuary in the Philadelphia, PA, Employee Benefits Practice of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2006.

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Experience

Rebecca serves both private and public sector clients regarding their defined benefit pension plans and post-retirement medical and life plans. Client assignments include actuarial valuations for minimum funding and employer accounting under ERISA, FASB, and GASB standards, cost studies, plan terminations, and government filings.

Rececca has extensive experience working on special projects such as experience studies, projections of funding and accounting, lump sum windows, and DB to DC replacement calculations. Rebecca serves as an expert on Milliman's valuation systems committee and educates other consultants and analysts about the use of the valuation system.

Rebecca also serves as the filing coordinator and system expert for all government filings for the Philadelphia Employee Benefits Practice.

Publications and Presentations

"GASB 73/74/75: Timing considerations for compliance with new financial reporting rules." PERiScope, March 2016.
“GASB 74/75: OPEB Expense and Balance Sheet Items.” PeriScope, May 2018.
Contributor, Milliman Public Pension Funding Study, 2017-2019.
Contributor, Milliman Corporate Pension Funding Study, 2012-2018.

Professional Designations

Enrolled Actuary, ERISA
Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Education

BS. Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

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ASOP 51: Summary and considerations for public plans

17 May 2022 - by Aaron Shapiro, Rebecca Ross

We provide an overview of the requirements of Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 51, and then look at how it has been implemented with pension plans.

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Potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and other mortality trends on corporate defined benefit plans

29 November 2021 - by Peter Thies, Rebecca Ross, Nick Carnaval

When it comes to pensions, how has COVID-19 affected the mortality assumptions for defined benefit plans?

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GASB 74/75: OPEB Expense and Balance Sheet Items

17 May 2018 - by Rebecca Ross

This article in the Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement 74 and 75 miniseries discusses Other Postemployment Benefit expenses and balance sheet items.

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GASB 73/74/75: Timing considerations for compliance with new financial reporting rules

23 May 2016 - by Rebecca Ross

Changes in GASB Statements Nos. 74 and 75 are designed to standardize the way other postemployment benefits (OPEB) expense is calculated and displayed in order to enhance disclosure and facilitate decision-making.

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ASOP 51: Summary and considerations for public plans

Potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and other mortality trends on corporate defined benefit plans

GASB 74/75: OPEB Expense and Balance Sheet Items

GASB 73/74/75: Timing considerations for compliance with new financial reporting rules

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