Product guide
Guaranteed Future Income Annuity II
A DIA from New York Life · reviewed from official materials, July 2026
New York Life's deferred income annuity: pay now, income starts years later — with deferred payout rates that look eye-popping on long deferrals.
The decoder
Reading the quote
A deferred payout rate — the longer the wait, the wilder the number
Defer income long enough and this product's displayed payout rates can reach well into double digits — a 15-year deferral shows figures that look like impossible returns. The same footnote governs: these are payout rates including return of principal, quoted for a male with $100,000 on the cash-refund option, not interest rates. A big deferred payout blends decades of investment time, your own principal coming back, and the fact that payments only start if you are alive to start them.
This is a deferred income annuity you can fund over time: each premium payment locks in future income at the rates in effect when that payment is made. Between purchase and the income start date there is no account value and no access — the trade that makes long-deferral quotes possible.
It is also New York Life's QLAC vehicle: designated at issue, qualified money up to the federal cap ($210,000 for 2026, indexed) is excluded from RMD calculations until income begins, as late as 85. Our QLAC decoder covers what that classification does and does not do.
Key structural terms
- Minimum premium
- $5,000 initial; $100 subsequent (flexible premium)
- Deferral
- 2 to 40 years; income must begin by age 85
- Cash value
- None — irrevocable; no withdrawals before the income start date
- Death before income starts
- Return of premium on refund options; nothing on life-only
- QLAC use
- QLAC-eligible (issue ages 35–80; cash-refund payout forms; federal cap $210,000 for 2026)
Structural terms summarized from New York Life's official product materials as reviewed in July 2026. Terms vary by state and change over time — confirm every detail with the carrier or its representative before acting. Current rates are deliberately not printed here.
The comparison
Against a payment stream
A deferred-start payment stream is the closest secondary-market cousin — future payments bought at a discount, often at a deeper effective yield precisely because start dates are far out. A guaranteed stream pays its schedule regardless of any life and passes to your estate; the DIA pays for exactly as long as you live. Opposite risks, similar shape.
The family mechanics are covered in our DIA decoder; what the secondary market pays right now is on the current estimated yields page. And because New York Life also stands behind payment streams we list, its role as an issuer is profiled on our New York Life carrier page.
Guaranteed Future Income Annuity II questions
Why do deferred income annuity rates look so much higher than immediate ones?
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