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: Misinformation about Structured Settlement Factoring
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The IRS Structured Settlement Factoring Audit Technique Guide was revised in 2009 and 2020, but has disappered in 2025 without a trace. The guide contained useful information for someone who wants to know the basis for Structured Settlement Protection Acts and IRC 5891, a section often cited by settlement professionals.
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Structured Wealth Strategies “intricate tapestry” presentation is fundamentally inaccurate and should not be relied upon by an investor considering buying an investment in structured settlement receivables. A “stitch in time” from the Structured Watchdog in response.
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Structured settlement consumers deserve a clear path to accurate structured settlement information… There’s no excuse for agents, surrogates or promoters of structured settlement factoring to flood the marketplace with content borne from ignorance of the subject matter and slovenly research
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In this blog John Darer reviews some really contorted statements about structured settlement factoring in a piece authored by Mia Taylor and edited by Hannah Smith for Bankrate.com and Yahoo Finance, and delivers his riposte below.
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Shawn Plummer’s assertion is a fail because the plain reading of the Periodic Payment Settlement Act of 1982 says nothing of the sort. See Periodic Payment Settlement Act of 1982 | Birth of Qualified Assignments and Codified IRS Rulings.
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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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Sell Any Annuity claims to have 75+ years of experience in a display of dogged factoring slobber. If that were true, that would mean that Sell Any Annuity was established in 1947, Newer companies attempt to beef up their resume with a “Years of Experience Scam”. Here’s how it works,