Annuity Withdrawals: Everything You Need to Know

March 9, 2025
8 min
Annuity Withdrawals: Everything You Need to Know
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Annuity withdrawals can be confusing, and if you’re not careful, you could face unnecessary fees and taxes. In this video, America's top annuity expert, Stan The Annuity Man, explains how withdrawals work, when they’re penalty-free, and what you need to consider before accessing your annuity funds.

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hi there Stan the annuity man America's

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annuity agent and oh yes I'm so glad you

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asked I am licensed in all 50 States

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including that nice beautiful one you're

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sitting talking about today is annuity

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withdrawals and everything you need to

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know about that going through specific

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annuity types so you buy the annuity and

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obviously if you buy it from us you're

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going to know those withdrawals but

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we're going to go over all those details

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each specific product type so that you

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fully understand the liquidity

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Provisions which is in essence what

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we're talking about annuities after

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this okay so annuity withdrawals the way

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that I look at that is is you're taking

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money out of an annuity now there's two

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ways to do that there's

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anization which is ripping off the the

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knob of a water faucet and this much

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Southern speak and incomes coming those

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would be immediate annuities Spas

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deferred income annuities Dias qualified

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longevity annuity contracts CAC those

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are just irrevocable pension products

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are going to pay you as long as you're

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breathing we can structure it 40 plus

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different ways Etc that to me falls

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under the category or withdrawals when

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most people to us and me and my team

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about withdrawals from annuities they're

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talking to us about multi-year guarantee

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annuities which is the annuity industry

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version of a CD and also fixed index

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annuities which is a fancier version of

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a CD but it's still C designed in 1995

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to compete with CD return so what's my

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withdrawal provision Stan what's my

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liquidity provision how can I get to the

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money without paying penalties because

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you have to understand when you buy say

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a three-year MGA or 5-year MGA or

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seven-year index annuity or 10year index

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in when I say that that means there's th

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that many specific years of surrender

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charges if you pivot and want to get all

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your money out before that end of that

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surrender period for instance you have a

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seven or 10e index

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annuity charges if you got out in year

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five you're going to have to pay a

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surrender penalty if you take all the

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money out but most index news let's just

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talk about those first they have what's

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called a liquidity provision and

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typically it's around 10% a lot of them

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are 10% annually of the total

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accumulation value so I mean it's just

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really that simple if you put in 100,000

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and it um you know it grew to

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120,000 um and you want to take out

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income you could take out a withdrawal

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you can take out 10% of that that

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$120,000 without penalty if you want to

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take out more the first 10% will be

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penalty-free and whatever you take after

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that those uh surrender charges will be

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applied sometimes it's most of the time

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it's 10% with index annuities a lot of

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times it's

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5% with multi-year guarantee annuities

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it's not not that static of a rule it

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just depends on the multi-year guarantee

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annuity that you're looking at I would

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encourage you to go to my site and see

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the the best fixed rates in the country

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we have a live mea feed that's you can

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put in your state you can put in your

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duration and you're going to see these

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all these companies come up and the

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yield is surrender but in those middle

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columns you're also going to see the

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liquidity Provisions can you take out

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just interest only which would be listed

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as int on our grid or can you take out

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5% every single year or 10% every single

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year when you SK schedule a call with us

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if you go to our our main page it says

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book a call and you schedule a time for

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me or one of my team members to call you

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right on the dot when you tell us to

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we're going to ask you um do you need

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liquidity or do you want to plan for

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that worst case scenario if you need to

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pull money out not that you will but

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maybe you want to or maybe you might in

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the future maybe you want to have that

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flexibility to take money out we'll ask

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that and then we'll pair you up with

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highest contractual guarantee that

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provides those specific needs and wants

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and goals of yours with these deferred

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annuities also remember when you take

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money out when you withdraw money out of

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a policy you're going to pay taxes gains

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first last in first out is what the

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accounting people call it Lio you're

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going to pay gains first at ordinary

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income tax levels obviously see your CPA

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and tax lawyer on those specifics but

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also understand this when we're talking

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about annuity

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withdrawals and you're taking money out

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of an annuity you're reasing I.E

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subtracting from the total so don't let

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anyone try to sell you that yeah you can

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take withdrawals but the gains will

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offset the withdrawals and all that

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that's sales pitch nonsense that's

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garbage if you're taking money out okay

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then it's going if you take more than

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than what you've earned then it's going

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to disrupt the guarantee give you an

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example let's just say at the time of

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this taping you purchased a 5-year

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multi-year guarantee annuity that's the

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annuity industry version of a CD and the

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guaranteed interest rate annually is

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4.5% okay and let's just say that

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annuity company allows you to take out

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10% penalty-free every single year but

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you say you know what I I only want to

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take out the 4 and a half% I don't want

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to ever touch the principal we can do

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that and the principal's intact but if

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you take out more than the 4 and a half%

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obviously it's going to total so you

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have to be very clear with us what your

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goals are and we will structure

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everything to match those goals right on

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the money on the last example I gave

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about the uh 4 and a half% multi-year

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guarantee annuity for 5 years that was

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that was under the assumption it was

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using non-qualified non Ira money let's

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talk about if you had that same 4 and a

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half% Miga in an IRA any money coming

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out of an IRA 100% of that money is

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going to be taxable why because it's

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been an IRA you know deferring taxes as

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they say understand this too if you're a

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youngster out there if you're pre 59 A2

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years old and you're taking money out of

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an annuity period if it's not anything

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that's not in a Roth IRA but if it's in

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a if it's in a regular Ira or a non IRA

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account there is an IRS penalty if you

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withdraw money pre 59 a half okay now

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there are a couple of rules around that

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and you can look it up 72t but I don't

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want to go down that rabbit hole and

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really unless it's just an ex uating

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circumstance you should not be planning

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on taking money out of an annuity a

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deferred annuity like an indexed annuity

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or a um a multi-year guarantee annuity

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before you turn age 59 and a half

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because you don't want to incur those

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10% penalties that the IRS there's no

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wiggle room with that okay so we just

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have to have that conversation when you

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book a call with us you know we're going

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to talk to you if you are one of those

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youngsters out there and you're 52 or

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you're 50 if you're pre- 50 I'm not sure

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we're going to ailan annuity unless you

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just tell us there's something that we

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don't know but we're going to make sure

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that you understand the rules that are

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in place that you need to follow so you

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can get the maximum contractual

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guarantee and no penalties no gotchas

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none of that stuff and we have been

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doing this for a very long time and we

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can certainly help you if withdrawing

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money from an annuity is important for

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you and it or if it's part of the plan

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or if it's just an emergency part of the

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plan regard L if you want it to be part

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of your plan tell us that we will we

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will pick the ones that we think are the

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best for you the highest rated the best

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claims paying ability and that meet your

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withdrawal goals so that you have this

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contractual guarantee in place but you

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know that you can get to the money if

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needed hey do me a favor if you want to

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contact us you know schedule call book a

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call with me or one of my team members

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yes there is a possibility randomly that

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I would get that call you know I'm doing

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a lot of traveling and talking and I do

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have a great team in play but there are

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times that I when I'm in the office I

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say I tell my CEO I put me in the pool I

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want to talk talk to people I love

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talking to people been doing that my

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whole life so you might get me so that

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would be fun I guess or scary one of the

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two get our books you know run run you

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know run uh numbers on our calculators

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it's free it's under no obligation no

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one bothers you and do me one last favor

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you know since you're watching this

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hopefully it's been informative we've

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done a bunch of them there's playlist

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