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: Dumbest Things Said About Structured Settlements Series
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CBC Settlement Funding is All Fakakta in Conshocken. CBC says “Structured settlements can provide long-standing income for minors. They gain access to funds at 18 years old to prevent frivolous spending and to protect financial security”.CBC Settlement Funding website
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Structured settlement annuitants are being bombarded with some of the most ridiculous and cringe-worthy schemes, like selling their structured settlement payments (for a fraction of their value) just to have cash for holiday gifts—whether it’s for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa.
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Bonilla career stats performed well below his peers with deferred payments. But for the fact the Mets and others were scammed by the late crooked Bernie Madoff, there would be no Bobby Bonilla Day. Instead of “celebrating” Bonilla, consider Bonilla’s deferred compensation peers as a better role model for annuities.
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SF Weekly claims to be “San Francisco’s smartest publication. They claim to “take journalism seriously”. Where does taking in money from paid sponsors, enabling them to unload more crap than on the streets of San Francisco, intersect with “serious journalism”?
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HighSpeedPayouts.com makes a devious and deceptive sales pitch to sell your structured settlement at its figurative pawn shop, for the purpose of “Taking Dream Vacations and Exotic Travel”, which is probably one of the all time dumbest things anyone can do with their structured settlement.
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AnnuityExpertAdvice is a fraud for labeling themselves an expert on the subject. There is a failure of ” AnnuityDunceAdvice” to grasp even a basic command of the subject matter of structured settlements.
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Having a stable income stream as a financial foundation going into a marriage is a good thing. Destroying a tax-free structured settlement income stream for pennies on the dollar to pay for a wedding is not a sound financial move, one that will leave you on bad financial footing.
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Structured settlement lead generator websites are like dandelions. When the wind blows they spring up everywhere turning the what should be an easy online search into a lawn strangled by dandelions and crab grass. AnnuityExpertAdvice.com is the latest website dandelion./
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On August 21, 1996, Bill Clinton signed the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996. It changed the exclusion from gross income of damages received on account of personal injury or sickness to apply only to damages which are received on account of a physical injury or physical sickness
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NL Brand Reviews has moved on from an “Editor in Chief”, who was an imaginary person with an imaginary degree with an imaginary job history and imaginary Rotary membership, to barfing this cringeworthy gibberish about structured settlements worthy of ridicule