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.
recent posts
- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
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Category: Settlement Planner Credentials
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John Darer reviews the Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC) designation, earned by completing a program by the National Structured Settlements Trade Association and the University of Texas at Austin. The CSSC program, established in 1994, requires 60+ hours of study, work experience, and passing an exam, ensuring expertise in structured settlements.
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A settlement planner who uses a professional credential in advertising but cannot articulate structured settlement fundamentals fundamentals diminishes the value of the credential by unacceptably lowering the standard. It’s up to other holders of the same credential to maintain a high bar and to call them out to “know your “sh^t!”
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Qualified Settlement Fund Planner, and for the life of me, with all of my renowned research skills, I can’t seem to find any accredited institution that awards such purported certification, designation, title, or an e-book or leaflet about it. Not a morsel. Not even a smidgen!. Maybe figment of imagination.
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The settlement planning space I operate in is at the intersection of multiple dynamic overlapping disciplines as part of a much larger dynamic financial services industry. This necessitates not only an incredible foundation level of knowledge but the need to stay current, to keep the pace.
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The Master’s Structured Settlement Consultant (MSSC) is an advanced credential earned by qualified structured settlement consultants and settlement planners from NSSTA and the Stayer Center for Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame (currently University of Texas at Austin)
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A Certified Financial Transitionist may help.plaintiffs facing the need to make life impacting financial decisions during a period of heightened stress.Transition stress can impair the decision making process, perhaps even leading to a frozen state where making a decision seems impossible.
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Does taking a professional designation course sponsored by a trade association count as attending the University of Notre Dame? Apparently a structured settlement broker holds himself out in this manner, in contravention to the facts about the designation posted on his trade association’s website.
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The Chartered Special Needs Consultant™ provides financial professionals with the technical, collaborative, and quantitative skills necessary to help clients with special needs and designed to provide people with disabilities and other special needs with a more competent advisor
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The Society of Settlement Planners enters its second decade with a return to its roots as a professional fraternity. This welcome change has been underway for several years and in my opinion, it is good for the business. John Darer interviews Charly Schell, current President of SSP.