Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Cleaning Up “The Structured Settlement Neighborhood”
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A qualified assignment is an assignment of obligation to make future periodic payments which satisfies the requirements of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) §130. The periodic payments must be damages payable by the defendant,its liability insurer, or a QSF and excludable under §104(a)(1) or (2)
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A Redditor shared concerns about receiving scam calls from companies wanting to buy their structured settlement annuity, which they have had since childhood. They questioned how these callers obtained their information, suspecting a breach of confidentiality. Additionally, it warns against such unsolicited offers, emphasizing there is no structured settlement registry.
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Work with a credentialed and experienced settlement planner to explore your options before signing any settlement agreement and release.
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As John Darer reviews, inaccurate information about structured settlements is useless to consumers. Silver Dollar Financial’s poorly constructed explanation regarding inheritance of structured settlements demonstrates a lack of fundamental understanding and is, quite frankly, nonsensical.
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Czapanskiy misses the absurdity that unlike other financial services, there is little to no regulation of structured settlement factoring companies or individuals soliciting the sale of structured settlements for pennies on the dollar or dispensing financial advice that could lead to financial devastation
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Annuity Expert Advice purports to provide annuity expert advice. Unfortunately for consumers, shawn Plummer’s website continues to be laden with inaccuracies about structured settlements and cannot be relied upon to provide annuty expert advice on the subject in the state it was at time of publication.
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SC Structured Settlement Protection Act | Following a multipart expose of structured settlement annuitants being exploited by structured settlement factoring companies a bill has been introduced in the South Carolina Senate seeking to amend Section 15-50-25 of the South Carolina Code of Laws
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Stack formation is a “fake it ’til you make it” marketing deception where a young company “stacks” years of experience of multiple individuals to create an illusion that a young company has been in existence for a long time. The more honest and ethical approach is to average years of experience.
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Good tax policy would eliminate the exemption from the excise tax on structured settlement factoring transactions, to mitigate ways that disabled people, caregiving women and poor communities of color are deprived of resources asserts Karen Czapanskiy. U. of MD School off Law in Baltimore Maryland