Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PERIOD CERTAIN
  
  a predetermined amount of time during which a participant receives allowable distributions from an IRA. A period certain may be any length of time so long as the period is less than the participant's life expectancy. The longer the period of payments, the less each payment amounts to.
  
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