SBI Pension Plan Scheme-Annuity Plus

SBI Pension Plan Scheme-Annuity PlusSBI Pension Plan Scheme-Annuity Plus

SBI Life Annuity plus is traditional non-participating pension plan scheme. SBI Pension Annuity Plus offers annuity option with various flexibility features. After retirement, income of an individual stops and expense continues. Medical expenses need to be incurred. During that time, income from pension offers some kind of security to the retired individual to maintain similar standard of living. In this article we would discuss about SBI pension plan scheme-Annuity plus.

Features of SBI Pension plan Annuity plus scheme

  1. Freedom to choose from variety of annuity payout options.
  2. Minimum age of entry is 40 years which provides opportunity to get pension from this age itself.
  3. You can get pension till your lifetime or your partner’s lifetime. Partner includes spouse, children, parents, in-laws or siblings.
  4. Annuity payout would be monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly.
  5. Higher premiums would get higher annuity rates
  6. Riders available if you pay additional premiums
  7. Options for banks or financial institutions to pay annuity payments to owners who have done reverse mortgage with them.

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Benefits of SBI Pension Plan Annuity plus scheme

1) Incentive for high premiums: If you pay high premiums, you would get higher annuity rates. The higher rates would be Rs 2.50 to Rs 4.25 for every Rs 1,000 additional premiums paid over and above Rs 150,000.

2) Accidental benefit: If you can pay additional premiums, you can get accidental benefit and sum assured would be paid.

3) Tax Benefits:

  • Premiums paid for pension plans are eligible for tax deduction under section 80CCC.
  • Lump sum amount paid after death is not taxable.
  • Annuity payouts are taxable as per income tax applicable for an individual.

Sum Assured

Minimum – Rs 25,000

Maximum – Rs 50,00,000

Annuity payouts

Minimum annuity payout would be Rs 200 per month. The options available are monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly.

Variants:

SBI Pension plan Annuity plus scheme is available in 5 variants.

1) Life Annuity – Single life: Annuity guaranteed payout throughout the life of the annuitant. Option for lifetime payout with or without refund of the premium paid.

2) Life Annuity – Two lives: Annuity payment guaranteed for payout throughout the life of the annuitant. In this variant, last survivor among the 2 can opt for lifelong payout with or without the refund of the premiums paid.

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3) Life Annuity – Increasing annual rate: Annual payout under this variant increases 3%-5% per annum. Payout would be through-out annuitant life.

4) Life Annuity – Balance capital Refund: Under this variant, annuity payout would happen at constant rate through-out annuitant life and on death, balance would be payable to the partner. Balance premium = Premium paid minus annuity paid.

5) Annuity life – Minimum Fixed period: Annual payout at constant rate for minimum period of 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and 20 years.

Conclusion: Pension plans offer several advantages and each pension plan would have its unique features. However, majority of the pension plans offer low return on investment.

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Suresh
SBI Pension Plan Scheme-Annuity Plus

Suresh KP

25 comments

  1. Hi I want to invest 3-4 lakhs without taking any risk. Please suggest me some plans where i can invest .(preferably looking for traditional investment no in equity/debts) with high returns.

  2. Hi ,

    For a retired individual, who intends to invest a sum of Rs 20lakhs. Which is a better option-
    1. Fixed Deposit
    2. Immidiate annunity plans like Jeevan Akshay.

    For a period of 10 years which would give higer returns, considering the taxation aspect as well.

    1. Hi Sourabh, Annuity plans would provide 4% to 6% annualised returns. However bank FD’s provide 9% to 10% annualised returns (pre-tax). If I am in such place, I would invest in nationalised banks bank FD schemes and relax

  3. Sir

    What do u feel abt the new ULIP policies? Some of them have capital protection + guaranteed returs.Are they safe?
    Thanks

    1. Mahima, New ULIP policies are better than the ones which are issued prior to 2009 where agents have minted money from individuals. While I am not big fan of new ULIP’s, they are secured, but provide very low returns. Consider term plan and invest balance in even in a bank RD which is low risk can fetch you higher returns than ULIP’s.

  4. I took  a Jeevan Anurag policy with annual premium for RS 40000  The policy began in 2005 and will be over by 2024.
    Ihave paid al the premiums till date ie till 2012 for Rs 3,20000. The sum assured is just Rs 5Lakhs.I will be paying a total of Rs760000 if I continue the policy.Even with bonus and other additions I doubt whether i will get more than say 8 lakhs. So i have decided to surrender the polcy and invest it in mutual funds.
    What will be my surrender value? In which mutual funds/other investments should i invest to get at least 8-10 laks by 2024.

    seetha

    1. Seetha, It would be difficult to tell this. You need to approach LIC office to check the surrender value .But one thing is you would get less amount when you surrender any insurance poliices. You would get more than Rs 8 Lakhs as there would be bonus and additions to the policy. The returns could be less than 5% per annum. In case you still feel that you want to surrender, you can invest the amounts in mutual funds like ICICI Pru focussed blue chip fund or HDFC Top-200 or Axis equity funds or UTI Opps fund etc., Invest in large cap and diverisifed to get higher returns.

  5. hi

    can u pls compare sbi saral pension & sbi lifelong pension plan.I cant honestly make out the difference between the 2.

    My bank sent me a document on saral plan which says that if i invest 5 lakhs peryear for 5 years i will get 45000 per month for life-on my death my nominee will get the entire corpus .sounds too good to be true?

    Thank you

    seetha

    1. Seetha, Your investment amt would be Rs 25 Lakhs. However you should be investing this for next 15-20 years. Hence your total investment amount would grow twice or thrice. Means. Your Rs 25 Lakhs would go to Rs 50 to Rs 75 lakhs. Even if you deposit this in bank FD you would get Rs 5 Lakhs to Rs 7.5 lakhs which translates to Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000. What they are promising you is Rs 45,000. Yes I would still feel to invest in term insurance and invest balance in bank FD. 

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