{"id":675,"date":"2012-04-20T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-04-20T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:34:50","slug":"will-annuity-rates-go-up-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/will-annuity-rates-go-up-in-2012","title":{"rendered":"Will Annuity Rates Go Up In 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/annuity-rates2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-680\" title=\"Annuity Rates Bar Graph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/annuity-rates2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>I am asked on a daily basis whether annuity rates will go up in 2012 and the plain answer is that &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But that is the wrong question. Whether annuity rates go up or down, does not answer your real question. Your real question is &#8220;Should I wait to take the annuity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the answer to that is no. President Obama has said that he&#8217;ll keep rates low until the end of 2014 or 2 1\/2 years away and Canada can&#8217;t disregard that.<\/p>\n<p>And if annuity rates due rise, what are you going to do? How do you know that annuity rates won&#8217;t rise more. And then increase some more?<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that is true is that if you will miss taking $500 a month for any period of time, you have to make the loss up in increased payments which is nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>And what if annuity rates go down while you&#8217;re waiting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am asked on a daily basis whether annuity rates will go up in 2012 and the plain answer is[&#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":[44,77,80,79,81,78],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-44","tag-annuity-rates","tag-down","tag-go-up","tag-increase","tag-rise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}