Yes, you can add money to an annuity through additional contributions or premium payments.
Premium period
yes
Whether you can add money to your annuity at any time depends on the type of annuity you have. For flexible premium annuities, you can typically make additional contributions as desired. However, with single premium annuities, you generally cannot add more funds after the initial investment. Always check the specific terms and conditions of your annuity contract for details.
Are the children the beneficiary's of the Annuity? Annuity's are like Life insurance, they have named beneficiary's listed in the contract. If the children are listed, then yes they are going to benefit from this account.
Its a Universal life insurance Policy.
Single premium immediate annuity is when one gives an insurance company an upfront payment or deposit and they straight away begin to pay you a monthly income. One can get them from a number of financial service companies.
Nope, but you do have the option if you so choose to use it.
Yes. ALL deferred annuities offer a guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate (although in a few contracts, that rate is zero). And all non-variable immediate annuities calculate the annuity payments using an assumed interest rate, so one could say that that rate is actually "guaranteed" (as the payments are). Some deferred annuities will accept only a single premium, and they're called "single premium annuities". Others will accept recurring premiums and are usually called "flexible premium annuities. Immediate annuities typically do not permit recurring premiums.
"In the U.S. an annuity contract is created when an insured party, usually an individual, pays a life insurance company a single premium that will later be distributed back to the insured party over time. Annuity contracts traditionally provide a guaranteed distribution of income over time, until the death of the person or persons named in the contract or until a final date, whichever comes first"
In most cases a single premium immediate annuity would be suitable for someone wanting to create a monthly ditribution for a certain period of time or for life. The second choice is whether this will be a single monthly distribution for one individual or a joint payout for two individuals with or without a survivors benefit.
In an ordinary annuity, the annuity payments are fed into the investment at the END of the year. In an annuity due, the payments are made at the BEGINNING of the year. Therefore, with an annuity due, each annuity payment accumulates an extra year of interest. This means that the future value of an annuity due is always greater than the future value of an ordinary annuity.When computing present value, each payment in an annuity due is discounted for one less year (because one of the payments is not made in the future- it is made at the beginning of this year and is already in terms of present dollars). This will result in a larger present value for an annuity due than for an ordinary annuity, as well.