When payouts occur under the Guaranteed Annual Payment
schedule, what happens to the Indexed Annuity account value?
It is reduced in proportion to those payouts.
The Income Rider and the underlying investment -- the Indexed Annuity -- do not
maintain account balances independently. Any funds distributed under the
provisions of the Income Rider are considered as distributions from the Indexed
Annuity and its account balance is reduced accordingly.
It is very important for anyone contemplating purchasing the Indexed Annuity
with Income Rider not to be confused or mislead: the separate values of the
Indexed Annuity account and the Income Account Value are not combined. If the
Indexed Annuity account value is, say, $320,714 when the Income Account Value is
$522,027.20, there is no total account value of the two balances.
This never happens.
The Income Account Value is only there to distribute funds in the special