subject: Using Structured Settlements [print this page] There are many useful ways you can use a structured settlement to help out in your daily finances. Many people find it helpful to treat a structured settlement as an emergency fund' of sortsthey will keep a separate savings account for all of their fixed settlement payments to build up in over time, and only withdrawal money from that account in times of unplanned financial stress. The trick with the emergency fund' idea is to be earning regular income that will be enough to cover any of the initial costs associated with the settlement (i.e. any legal bills, hospital/medical bills, insurance claims, etc. that still are outstanding after being offered a settlement in court). If you don't need to use the settlement funds right away to cover those costs, it's a great idea to let it accumulate in a savings account, to get the most bang out of your settlement award that generally won't be fully realized anyway until the end of the disbursement period. You never know when such an emergency fund' will come in handy, especially if you are planning to create a retirement fund for later. The funds in the savings account gained by your structured settlement could eventually end up being a type of annuity used for a college fund, manual pension for retirement, or any number of rainy day' uses for the savvy saver.
One of them is there are the restrictions on the structured settlements & such limitation is not made for everyone. Accepting the structured settlement is accepting the structured deal. Due to the structure, you will not return that for the lump sum payment when agreeing with this kind of the payment. As of such restriction, you just can't use guarantee as the collateral for car or else home loan. With this little flexibility for such kind of the payment, the major expenses such as buying home and other unexpected expenses must be provided with some other financial solutions as source of payment can't be cash advanced and nor back-up the mortgage. With this demand of big amount at some points in lives, there is the way to liquidate the structured settlement payment as answer to the problem with the flexibility. An answer is you may now sell the structured settlement to the third party. Also, there are the investors who are all interested in buying the structured settlements.
