{"id":23,"date":"2010-09-17T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T17:55:30","slug":"if-i-don%e2%80%99t-take-my-life-annuity-now-won%e2%80%99t-those-payments-be-lost-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/if-i-don%e2%80%99t-take-my-life-annuity-now-won%e2%80%99t-those-payments-be-lost-forever","title":{"rendered":"If I Don\u2019t Take My Life Annuity Now, Won\u2019t Those Payments Be Lost Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \">No, not necessarily forever, but this is one of the sticky questions that each person must answer themselves. If today you can receive $500 a month from your life annuity, should you instead wait for a year if you can then get $525? If you wait you will lose $500 x 12 months. Then you will make up the loss at the rate of $25 a month and be even after 20 years of life annuity payments. You decide if you will live another 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not necessarily forever, but this is one of the sticky questions that each person must answer themselves. If today[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}