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Nancy Altman

American Social Security advisor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nancy Altman is an American lawyer, educator, and Social Security Advisory Board member. She is president of Social Security Works.

Education

Altman has an AB from Harvard University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1]

Career

Altman was a tax lawyer with Covington & Burling.[2] She was a legislative assistant to John Danforth.[3]

Altman was Alan Greenspan's assistant on the Commission that created the 1983 Amendments to Social Security.[4]

She taught at Harvard Kennedy School.[5]

Altman was appointed to the Social Security Advisory Board[6] in 2017 and reappointed in 2024.[7]

She is a founding board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.[8]

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Books

  • The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble (2005)[9]
  • Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All (2015) with Eric R. Kingson
  • The Truth About Social Security: The Founders’ Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings (2018)[10]

References

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