Can I Buy A Pension Annuity With Savings?

June 12, 2026
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Can I Buy A Pension Annuity With Savings?
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Can you buy a pension annuity with savings? In this video, I explain how you can use savings, checking accounts, or other non-qualified funds to purchase a pension annuity that provides lifetime income. I talk about how to identify your income gap, compare all available carriers, and structure an annuity that delivers the highest contractual guarantees for your retirement goals.

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00:00 Introduction to the video
00:49 Different types of pension annuities
01:27 How pension annuity products work
02:17 How taxes is calculated with lifetime income
03:14 How to leave unused money to beneficiaries
04:03 Best immediate annuity for inflation
04:20 How you can add cost of living adjustment riders into pension annuities
04:57 How the annuity process works
05:59 How to identify income gaps & choose the right annuity
07:07 How annuities are customizable & simple
07:56 Next steps and helpful resources

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  • 0:00 Introduction to the video
  • 0:49 Different types of pension annuities
  • 1:27 How pension annuity products work
  • 2:17 How taxes is calculated with lifetime income
  • 3:14 How to leave unused money to beneficiaries
  • 4:03 Best immediate annuity for inflation
  • 4:20 How you can add cost of living adjustment riders into pension annuities
  • 4:57 How the annuity process works
  • 5:59 How to identify income gaps & choose the right annuity
  • 7:07 How annuities are customizable & simple
  • 7:56 Next steps and helpful resources

0:00
So, can you I buy a pension annuity with

0:04
savings? Hi there. I'm Stan the annuity

0:06
man. Stan knows. If you don't believe

0:09
that, I wear t-shirts that say that. The

0:11
old boss Nike campaign. I'm America's

0:14
annuity agent licensed in all 50 states

0:16
of Puerto Rico. But uh we're going to

0:18
talk about the benefits of using savings

0:21
to buy a pension annuity and why you

0:24
should do that, how you should do that,

0:26
how you should go about doing that in a

0:29
proper manner to get the highest

0:30
contractual guarantees in the country

0:33
for your specific situation.

0:36
Sounds like a plan. Sounds like a darn

0:38
good plan. Stan the annuity man.

0:41
Exactly.

0:45
[music]

0:48
All right. So, first of all, buying a

0:50
pension annuity, we're talking about a

0:52
single premium, immediate annuity, a

0:54
deferred income annuity, qualified

0:56
longevity annuity contract, and income

0:58
writers. Those are the four types that

1:00
provide lifetime income. Those are

1:02
pension annuities. They're going to pay

1:04
for as long as you're breathing. If you

1:06
set it up joint with the spouse, as long

1:08
as one of you is breathing or on a

1:10
respirator. Okay? Um, but you can use

1:13
your savings to do that. You can also

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with everything but a CQAC. QAC can only

1:18
be used with traditional IRA money, but

1:20
but all the rest can you can use Roth

1:22
IRA, traditional IRA, nonirra savings,

1:25
which is what we're talking about. So,

1:27
let's talk about just using savings

1:29
accounts, checking accounts,

1:31
nonqualified as they say in the

1:33
business, nonirra.

1:36
Um, the good news about that is with all

1:38
pension annuity products,

1:41
the the income stream that you're going

1:43
to receive is a is a combination of

1:46
return of principal plus interest. Let

1:48
me say that again. So, with an immediate

1:51
annuity, if you said to me, Stan the

1:52
Annuity Man, America's annuity agent, I

1:55
need a lifetime income stream with an

1:58
immediate annuity to start as soon as

2:00
possible. That income stream is going to

2:02
be a combination of return or principal

2:05
plus interest, but the annuity company

2:07
is on the hook to pay for as long as

2:09
you're breathing, even if there's

2:11
nothing left in the account. I'm going

2:13
to pause there. I want you to process

2:15
it. Okay? When you're using savings type

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money, checking account type money,

2:20
nonIRRA type money. So, you're getting

2:22
you're getting return of principal plus

2:25
interest, you're only paying taxes on

2:28
the interest part of the lifetime income

2:31
stream. So, let's just say we run the

2:34
immediate annuity quote. This is an

2:35
example, okay? And you can go to my site

2:38
and run them yourself. Theanuityman.com.

2:41
Let's just say you're getting a $5,000

2:44
income stream per month the rest of your

2:46
life. 4,000 is return of principal.

2:50
1,000 is interest. So you're getting

2:53
5,000 a month, but you're only paying

2:55
taxes on the 1,000.

2:58
Does that make sense? Okay. So you do

3:02
that, you live forever and the account

3:05
draws down to zero. At that point in

3:08
time, then all of it is taxable, but

3:11
they're still going to pay for as long

3:12
as you're breathing. Now, you also can

3:14
structure it so that 100% of any unused

3:17
money goes to your beneficiaries. I call

3:19
these back stops, lifetime income back

3:22
stops, like when you literally like you

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had the back stop behind you where the

3:25
ball didn't roll down the hill. Okay? In

3:28
this case, we can put the back stop in

3:30
place so that the annuity company never

3:31
keeps a penny, but yet they're on the

3:33
hook to pay for as long as you are

3:35
breathing.

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Because a lot of people, I'm one of

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them. I've worked hard. I came from

3:40
nothing. Had no money when I started and

3:42
here we are. I don't want to give that

3:44
away. Even though there's a higher

3:46
payment for life only. You know, bus

3:49
hits you day two, money goes poof. But

3:52
99% of the people don't do that. 99% of

3:54
the people put a backs stop in place so

3:56
that money will be there for the

3:57
beneficiaries if you die early in the

3:59
policy. But that's buying a pension.

4:02
All right? You already own the best

4:03
pension in on the planet. Social

4:06
Security is the best immediate annuity

4:08
on the planet because it solves for

4:10
inflation because the inflation

4:11
component is a political football, not a

4:14
contract, not a actuarial football. And

4:16
and I'm contractual, so I'm looking at

4:18
the contractual guarantees.

4:20
We can also add cost of living

4:22
adjustment writers increases to that

4:25
pension that you're using with your

4:27
savings money, but know that the annuity

4:29
company doesn't give that away. Visual,

4:31
here's the annuity, pension annuity

4:33
without the increase. Here's the same

4:36
the same one with an increase visually

4:39
for the people listening. I got one hand

4:41
above my head and one hand at midchest

4:44
level to show the difference. Typically,

4:46
it's a 7 to9 year break even point. You

4:49
can put it on there if you want. It

4:50
doesn't mathematically work to me. But

4:53
if it feels good to you, then we can do

4:55
that. But yes, you can do that. Now, the

4:57
process we handle that the annuity man.

5:00
We we're licensed in all 50 states in

5:01
Puerto Rico. We represent pretty much

5:03
every single carrier out there. We take

5:05
care of the paperwork and the money from

5:08
your savings never never goes to us. It

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goes directly to the annuity company

5:14
directly. You can either wire transfer

5:17
it or FedEx exit. We pay for both. Okay?

5:20
So, you're not out of pocket. So, we

5:22
would do the we would do the paperwork.

5:24
We would get the policy number. We would

5:26
move the money from you, your savings

5:29
account, to the annuity company that

5:32
provided the highest contractual

5:33
guarantee that you agreed upon.

5:36
Never touches our hands. Never comes to

5:40
our office. Goes directly to the annuity

5:43
company and we handle that. And I have a

5:45
full staff in my Las Vegas headquarters

5:48
that all all of them licensed in all 50

5:50
states. Not not one of them is on

5:52
commission. So, their incentive is to

5:54
get this done for you.

5:58
So, let's go. Let's let's take one more

6:01
detailed stab at this. So, you're

6:04
looking to possibly buy a pension

6:06
annuity using your savings account,

6:08
nonirra, non-qualified checking account

6:11
type money. What I need you to do is

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look at your income floor. Look at what

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what's coming in every month. What's

6:17
your social security, dividend stocks?

6:20
If you have rental houses, whatever is

6:22
coming into that account every month,

6:24
then tell me what what's the gap. What

6:27
gap do you need to fill? Let's just say

6:29
you have $4,000 a month coming in from

6:32
everything and you need an additional

6:33
thousand. Let's solve for the additional

6:36
thousand. Let's run a reverse engineer

6:38
quote with all carriers to solve for the

6:41
1,000 using the least amount of money.

6:45
You can do that at my site as well or

6:47
you can have us do it. You can have me

6:49
do it. stantheanuityman.com.

6:52
That's the way I want you to think.

6:53
What's my income floor? What's the gap

6:55
that needs to be filled? What's that

6:57
pension uh that I need to add in

7:00
addition to social security and

7:01
everything else? That's how easy it is.

7:04
You own an annuity for what it will do,

7:06
not what it might do. I think the

7:07
conversation that we will then have to

7:09
have is how do you want to structure it?

7:11
Is it your life? Is it joint life? Do

7:12
you want to backs stop on it? How do you

7:14
want to do that? We can customize that

7:17
pension for you. There's no

7:20
one-sizefits-all. The the local person's

7:22
going to try to show you a

7:24
one-sizefits-all. Doesn't exist. It's

7:26
crap. They're lazy. They're only showing

7:28
one product. We represent all carriers

7:31
and look at all products and have no

7:33
bias toward one product or carrier. We

7:36
don't care who provides the highest

7:38
contractual guarantee after you answer

7:40
two questions. What do you want the

7:41
money to contractually do? And when do

7:43
you want those contractual guarantees to

7:44
start? Stan the Annuity Man has made it

7:47
that simple. Why? Because simple's good.

7:50
That's what my wife, she goes, "You're

7:51
so simple." And I take that as a

7:53
compliment. I really do. Do me one last

7:56
favor. Go to my site, like I said,

7:57
theanuityman.com. You can download books

7:59
for free, run quotes, watch videos, get

8:03
educated, okay? You can also schedule

8:05
call with me. Um, if you don't get me,

8:08
demand me if you want me. If you want to

8:10
run for the hills from me, that's fine,

8:11
too. I have licensed people there

8:12
that'll talk to you as well. But watch

8:14
this video. There's a spinning clock up

8:16
there. And I did a video on the

8:17
commoditization of annuities. Why

8:19
annuities are all commodities. Why

8:21
annuity should be shot with all carriers

8:22
to provide the highest contractual

8:24
guarantee. I always say you need to look

8:26
at the number and the rating. The number

8:28
and the rating. The number and the

8:29
rating. The number and the rating. And

8:31
then my recommendation. That's the

8:33
formula. And from that formula, you're

8:35
going to get the best solution for your

8:37
specific situation. My name is Stan the

8:40
Annuity Man. And as they say in the

8:41
business, Stan knows I really do.

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