Turn Your Generosity Into Financial Security, A Tax Break—And A Cancer Cure (NAPSA)—Want to increase your retirement income, reduce your taxes and savelives? When you use cash or securities to create a charitable gift annuity with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, you get a tax break and fixed monthly payments at an attractive rate—guaranteed for the rest of your life. Your investment in leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research means benefits for you and hope for the more than 670,000 Americans battling blood cancer. “It was the best decision of my life,” says Helen Doss Reed, 88, who lost her stepdaughter, Carol, to leukemia, the leading cause of disease-related death in children under the age of 15. Doss Reed created a charitable gift annuity with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. “I feel secure knowing I'll get a monthly check for as long as I live,” she explains. “In return, it feels great to help fund research that may one day find a cure for cancer.” Doss Reed is pleased with her annuity’s payout rate. “The annual return I’d get at my local bank pales in comparison to the interest rate from my charitable gift annuity,” she explains. Payout rates correspond to the age of the donor; the older the donor, the higher the rate. Currently, The Leukemia & LymphomaSociety offers annual rates above seven percent for donors in their mid70s, and more than 11 percent for donors in their 90s. Even better, the rates are locked in at the time the charitable gift annuity is created. “I feel secure knowing I'll get a monthly check for as long as | live,” says Helen Doss Reed of her charitable gift annuity with The Leukemia & LymphomaSociety. Every five minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma, and every nine minutes, another child or adult dies from these cancers. For more information about charitable gift annuities or other waysto help, call the Society tollfree at (888) 773-9958 or visit www.LLs8.org. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. Since its inception in 1949, the Society has provided more than $358 million for research specifically targeting blood cancers. The Society does not issue charitable gift annuities in Arkansas and Hawaii.
