Congratulations! You’ve won the lottery! And you can’t wait to begin making all the positive changes in your life that you’ve dreamt of for so long. But lottery winners typically wait for a long time to receive lottery winnings. But if you decide to sell your structured settlement, you could have the cash on hand…
In recent months the news media has covered the dangers and potential pitfalls associated with selling an annuity settlement, or structured settlement annuity. A piece in the Washington Post this past summer highlighted one particular company involved in what appeared to be predatory practices. There is of course the entirely other side of the industry,…
Annuity payments are as common as they are controversial. They’re common in the sense that they are used for everything from retirement and life insurance plans to court settlement payouts, but they’re controversial in the sense that the money they store is often inaccessible. An annuity is a financial agreement in which a certain amount…