RILAs
Income Tax facts
Social Security Family Benefits
Social Security
CRTs
Estate planning
100

Answer: A 1-year segment of a RILA carriers this type of risk that wouldn’t apply to a 6-year segment

Question: What is Renewal Rate Risk?

100

Answer: The U.S. federal tax system uses this structure where higher portions of income are taxed at higher rates.

Question: What is a progressive tax system?

100

Answer: A spouse may receive up to this percentage of the worker’s full retirement benefit.

Question: What is 50%?

100

Answer: Employees and employers each pay this percentage of wages toward Social Security.

Question: What is 6.2%?

100

Answer: The two main types of charitable remainder trusts are these.

Question: What are CRATs and CRUTs?

100

Answer: The person who creates a trust is known by this term.

Question: What is a grantor?

200

Answer: Some RILAs charge this type of annual fee for additional benefit features.

Question: What is a rider fee?

DB, Liquidity, Income

200

Answer: This tax rate applies to the last dollar of income earned.

Question: What is the marginal tax rate?

200

Answer: A surviving spouse can receive up to this percentage of the deceased worker’s benefit.

Question: What is 100%?

200

Answer: The maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security tax each year is known as this.

Question: What is the Social Security wage base?

200

Answer: The charitable beneficiary of a CRT must be this type of organization.

Question: What is a qualified 501(c)(3) charity?What is a pop up message?

200

Answer: The tax rate applied to large taxable estates at the federal level can reach this percentage.

Question: What is 40%?

300

Answer: This companies offers a Liquidity Rider on their 6 year RILA product for 0.30% fee

Q: Who is Sammons Retirement Solutions (Will Accept Midland)?

300

Answer: This rule determines when converted Roth funds can be withdrawn without penalty.

Question: What is the Roth conversion five-year rule?

300

Answer: Divorced spouses may claim benefits if the marriage lasted at least this long.

Question: What is 10 years?

300

Answer: Social Security calculates benefits based on the highest number of working years of earnings.

Question: What is 35 years?

300

Answer: The payout amount in a CRAT is determined based on this value at the time the trust is created.

Question: What is the initial fair market value of the trust assets?

300

Answer: This planning strategy allows a surviving spouse to use the unused estate tax exemption of the deceased spouse.

Question: What is portability?

400

Answer: This company offers a Dual Directional Yield Segment that will pay a specified interest rate as long as the underlying index doesn’t fall below a pre-set percentage 


Q: What is Global Atlantic?

400

Answer: These 2 percentages are technically the lowest and highest someone will pay in federal taxes for capital gains

Question: What is 0 and 37%

400

Answer: If both spouses are divorced and eligible, this many ex-spouses can collect benefits on the same worker’s record.

Question: What is an unlimited number?

400

Answer: COLA increases are applied beginning in this month each year.

Question: What is January?

400

Answer: This type of CRUT limits payments to trust income until a triggering event occurs.

Question: What is a Net Income with Makeup CRUT (NIMCRUT)?

400

Answer: Assets transferred before death may retain the donor’s original cost basis under this rule.

Question: What is carryover basis?

500

Answer: RILAs may help investors stay invested by reducing this behavioral reaction during market downturns.

Question: What is panic selling?

500

Answer: This percentage is the exact amount a CA resident will pay in Long Term Capital Gains when Taxable income exceeds $1,500,000

Question: What is 37.1%?

Federal LTCG 20%, Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) 3.8%, CA - 13.3%

500

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Answer: Surviving spouses may claim benefits as early as this age.


Question: What is age 60?

500

Answer: This indexed earnings measure determines the base amount used to calculate Social Security benefits.

Question: What is Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME)?

500

Answer: CRT distributions are taxed in the following order.

Question: What is ordinary income first, then capital gains, then other income, and finally principal (Corpus) ?

500

Answer: This tax applies to transfers that skip a generation, such as directly to grandchildren.

Question: What is the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax? (Will Accept GST)

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