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Sub Headline: Correlating Retirement Income Scenarios with Annuity Income Options
Synopsis: While some contracts offer more income options than others, or use different language to describe your choices, you generally have six or seven alternatives, each with distinctive characteristics. You can get a good sense of how they differ and use the options that fit your retirement scheme. Watch part 4 Annuity Income Options from the series Annuity Retirement Income with syndicated financial columnist and talk show host Steve Savant.
Content: When you buy an immediate annuity, or when you’re ready to convert your deferred annuity into income, you will have to choose the way in which that income will be paid. Every contract offers a range of choices that provide different benefits, pay different amounts of income, and cover different periods of time.
LIFE ANNUITY Based on contract value, your age when payments begin, and interest rate (if fixed income) or investment performance and AIR (if variable income.)
LIFE INCOME WITH PERIOD, OR TERM, CERTAIN Based on contract value, your age when payments begin, interest rate (if fixed income) or investment performance and AIR (if variable income), and the length of the guarantee (typically from 5 to 20 years.)
LIFE INCOME WITH REFUND PAYOUT Based on contract value, your age when payments begin, interest rate (if fixed income) or investment performance and AIR (if variable income), and the refund guarantee.
JOINT AND SURVIVOR LIFE ANNUITY Based on contract value, your age and the age of your joint annuitant when payments begin, and interest rate (if fixed income) or investment performance and AIR (if variable income)
JOINT AND SURVIVOR ANNUITY WITH PERIOD, OR TERM, CERTAIN Based on contract value, your age and the age of your joint annuitant when payments begin, interest rate (if fixed income) or investment performance and AIR (if variable income), and the length of the guarantee (typically from 5 to 20 years.)
FIXED AMOUNT (AVAILABLE ONLY WITH A FIXED INCOME PAYOUT) You determine how much income you want.
FIXED PERIOD, OR TERM Based on contract value, the length of time you choose to receive income, interest rate (if fixed income) or investment performance and AIR (if variable income), and length of term.
*Annuity income and insurance features depend on claims-paying ability of contract provider.
Contributions from the book Guide to Understanding Annuities in this press release are used with permission from Light Bulb Press.
