0000837010-16-000092.txt : 20180306 0000837010-16-000092.hdr.sgml : 20180306 20160426092347 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000837010-16-000092 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160426 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: VOYA RETIREMENT INSURANCE & ANNUITY Co CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000837010 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: LIFE INSURANCE [6311] IRS NUMBER: 710294708 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CT FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE ORANGE WAY CITY: WINDSOR STATE: CT ZIP: 06095-4774 BUSINESS PHONE: 860-580-4646 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE ORANGE WAY CITY: WINDSOR STATE: CT ZIP: 06095-4774 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ING LIFE INSURANCE & ANNUITY CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20020319 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: AETNA LIFE INSURANCE & ANNUITY CO /CT DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm gaaeffectivedatelttr.htm - Generated by SEC Publisher for SEC Filing

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U.S. LEGAL/PRODUCT FILING UNIT

ONE ORANGE WAY, C2N

WINDSOR, CT 06095-4774

 

J. NEIL MCMURDIE

SENIOR COUNSEL

PHONE:  (860) 580-2824  |  EMAIL:  NEIL.MCMURDIE@VOYA.COM

 

                                                                                                                                                                BY EDGARLINK

 

April 26, 2016

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F. Street, NE

Washington, DC  20549

 

Attention: Filing Desk

 

Re:

Voya Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company

Registration Statement on Form S-3

Prospectus Title:  Guaranteed Accumulation Account

File No.:  333-210551

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

On behalf of Voya Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company (the “Company”) and under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act”), on April 1, 2016, we submitted for filing a new Registration Statement on Form S-3 with respect to the Company’s Guaranteed Accumulation Account (the “Account”).  The Account is a non-unitized separate account with a market value adjustment feature that is available as an investment option under many of the Company’s variable annuity contracts.  The purpose of that filing was to update Company information and to register additional securities of the Account. 

 

When we filed the new Registration statement we also filed an acceleration request under Rule 461 of the 1933 Act and asked that the new Registration Statement be declared effective on May 1, 2016.  Subsequently, we also filed a Delaying Amendment to ensure that the new Registration Statement would not go effective on the 20th day after filing under Rule 8(a) of the 1933 Act.

 

Because May 1, 2016, is a Sunday and the SEC staff cannot accelerate the effectiveness of the new Registration Statement on that day, we hereby request that our initial acceleration request be amended so that the new Registration Statement be declared effective on Friday, April 29, 2016. 

 

If you have any questions or concerns about the forgoing, please do not hesitate to call me at (860) 580-2824.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ J. Neil McMurdie

 

J. Neil McMurdie

 

 

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