During its September meeting, the Board held a special session at the National Press Club to meet with members of the 2014-2015 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods. The Board and Panel met in executive session in the morning followed by a public presentation of the Panel’s findings and recommendations. The independent Panel of expert actuaries, economists and demographers is appointed by the Social Security Advisory Board every four years and is charged with reviewing the assumptions specified by the Board of Trustees of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund and the Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund and the methods used by the Social Security actuaries to project the future financial status of the Social Security programs.