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February 22, 2018

Beware the "Muthaforkers" | Warning to 18-21 Year Olds With Structured Settlements

by Structured Settlement Watchdog

Millennials familiar with bitcoin and other crypto currencies know that a fork has a deeper meaning than a utensil for lifting food and bring it to your mouth.

If You Are 18-21 and have a structured settlement, you are being targeted by cash in your annuity companies who will attempt to groom you so they can get you to fork over your structured settlement payments for pennies on the dollar.

Despite structured settlement protection acts such companies have partnered with big data and/or maintain their own databases to target their victims using false, misleading and unethical marketing techniques to get them to fork over the valuable rights to their structured settlement money. Beware the "muthaforkers"

Beware of mailings or phone calls from companies who pretend to be from a fake but official sounding government agency or fraudulent structured settlement registry.

It may seem like common sense, but beware of attempts by representatives of structured settlement factoring companies trying to befriend you, buy you booze, get you to blaze one (in states where it is illegal), take you to strip clubs, fly you to Florida or bus you into Virginia or Connecticut. Understand that you are the sheep and these companies are wolves seek to shear off your financial hair.

It's all unsavory business conduct that is designed to trap you so they can fleece you for pennies on the dollar. Don't get forked over.

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What is a Structured Settlement? What You Need to Know
What you need to know about structured settlements. General explanation of structured settlements, including the stable guaranteed income and favorable tax benefits that give structured settlements their "juice" and a helpful introductory video featuring 2022 A.M. Best Client Recommended structured settlement expert and Registered Settlement Planner John Darer® of 4structures.com® LLC
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How structured settlements work, including 4structures.com LLC's super helpful structured settlement flow chart/diagram showing how structured settlements fit in with other settlement planning solutions.
Rated Ages and Structured Settlement Cost
Rated Ages for Structured Settlement Annuities present advantages to all parties. Shift the mortality risk to a life insurance company whose business it it is to assess mortality risk to price its life insurance and annuities. Rated ages boost your structured settlement annuity benefit per premium dollar, or your yield on lifetime payments. Rated ages help to reduce the cost of funding a Medicare Set Aside arrangement where a Structured MSA, is being used { WCMSA LMSA or NFMSA].
Structured Settlement Annuity Companies 2022
Which life insurance companies issue structured settlement annuities going into 2022? A list of current structured annuity issuers, the location of their home offices and their financial ratings from A.M. Best, Moodys, Fitch, Standard & Poors and/or other Tier1 NAIC ratings, with links to their websites and other useful information.
Treasury Funded Structured Settlements
Treasury Funded Structured Settlements are a settlement option for the most conservative using the OTHER permissible qualified funding asset under IRC 130(d), United States Treasury Bonds in addition to, or instead of, structured settlement annuities. Treasury Funded Structured Settlements can also be used to fund installment sales, also known as structured sales and other non qualified structured settlements.
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Structured Settlement Payments | Types of Structured Settlements
Ways You Can Structure Your Settlement Payments. With a structured settlement you can have more than one type of payment in a single contract. Different types of structured settlement payments can be customized and combined to meet your needs on a stand-alone basis, or in conjunction with other financial products. Diversify your structured settlement, if you wish, by funding with more than one annuity issuer, with treasury funded structured settlements, index linked structured settlement payments and market based structured .
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Structured attorney fees is a financial strategy that offers a unique way to defer taxes for lawyers and law firms. Lawyers CAN structure their legal fees even if the plaintiff doesn't structure their settlement. There are multiple ways to structure your attorney fees, such as the an index linked structured settlement where payments are adjusted based on upside changes in the S&P 500 with no downside and a cap of 5%. Trial Lawyers may also use a special deferred pay/deferred compensation arrangement, if market based returns returns are desired with no cap. Plan NOW for year end! Put structured attorney fee expert John Darer® on your settlement planning team.
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