Buying Structured Settlements Buying of structured settlements in the secondary market has been a booming business that has until of late been relatively a top-secret need to know topic. What are you buying? Well, you are buying a future payment stream. usually as an award of the court for some sort of personal injury settlement. Where the settlement was invested in an annuity to provide for a larger payment over time. Now you aren’t buying the payments at face value, in fact; the IRS has a calculation that is used to figure out what that future payment is valued at […]