Form Qualified Joint

A joint-life annuity provides you with an income for life, but then transfers to your spouse, partner or any other chosen beneficiary when you die and pays them a regular income for the rest of their lives.

Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity If your spouse consents to change the way the Plan's retirement benefits are paid, your spouse gives up his or her right to the QJSA payments. This is referred to as a waiver of the QJSA payment form.

After an annuitant dies, insurance companies distribute any remaining payments to beneficiaries in a lump sum or stream of payments. It's important to include a beneficiary in the annuity contract terms so that the accumulated assets are not surrendered to a financial institution if the owner dies.

Joint and Survivor Annuity Payments A 100 percent joint and survivor annuity pays the same monthly amount until the second person dies. The choices available for the joint and survivor option are set by the company providing the retirement annuity.

Does my spouse need to consent to the distribution? If you are married and your 403(b) plan is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), you and your spouse may need to waive the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity (QJSA) requirement. Please contact your employer for more information.

A joint and survivor annuity, also known as a joint-life annuity, is an insurance product for couples that continues to make regular payments as long as one spouse lives.In the case of a joint and survivor annuity, both spouses have guaranteed coverage.

A qualified joint and survivor annuity (QJSA) provides a lifetime payment to an annuitant and spouse, child, or dependent from a qualified plan. QJSA rules apply to money-purchase pension plans, defined benefit plans, and target benefits.

A QJSA is when retirement benefits are paid as a life annuity (a series of payments, usually monthly, for life) to the participant and a survivor annuity over the life of the participant's surviving spouse (or a former spouse, child or dependent who must be treated as a surviving spouse under a QDRO) following the

A joint and survivor annuity is an annuity that pays out for the remainder of two people's lives.A 50 percent joint and survivor annuity will pay the surviving annuitant half the payment amount that payees were receiving when both annuitants were alive.