MGM Advantage, the retirement income specialist, has asked people who have purchased an annuity how truthful they were in declaring health and lifestyle factors.
One in twenty (five per cent) of retired people who purchased an annuity said they either deliberately under-estimated smoking and drinking, did not declare one or more medical conditions or said bluntly they were not at all honest with their provider.
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