Supplement dated June 30, 2006 to the May 1, 2006 Prospectuses for the
following annuity products: American Skandia Advisor Plan III, American Skandia
XTra Credit SIX, American Skandia LifeVest(R) II, American Skandia APEX II,
Advisors Choice (R)/2000/, Optimum, Optimum Plus, Optimum Four, American
Skandia Variable Adjustable Immediate Annuity and American Skandia Variable
Immediate Annuity (the "Prospectuses").

This Supplement should be read and retained with the current Prospectus for
your annuity contract issued by American Skandia Life Assurance Corporation
("American Skandia"). This Supplement is intended to update certain information
in the Prospectus for the variable or immediate annuity you own, and is not
intended to be a prospectus or offer for any other variable or immediate
annuity listed here that you do not own. If you would like another copy of the
current Prospectus, please contact American Skandia at 1-800-752-6342.

We are issuing this supplement to describe a change to the above-referenced
Prospectuses. This change applies to each Prospectus and will be effective on
or about June 30, 2006.

The section of the Prospectus entitled "May I Give My Financial Professional
Permission to Forward Transaction Instructions?" is replaced with the following:

Yes. Subject to our rules, your Financial Professional may forward instructions
regarding the allocation of your Account Value, and request financial
transactions involving investment options. If your Financial Professional has
this authority, we deem that all transactions that are directed by your
Financial Professional with respect to your Annuity have been authorized by
you. You must contact us immediately if and when you revoke such authority. We
will not be responsible for acting on instructions from your Financial
Professional until we receive notification of the revocation of such person's
authority. We may also suspend, cancel or limit these privileges at any time.
We will notify you if we do.