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FLEXIBLE PREMIUM VARIABLE ANNUITY - B

Issued Through

SEPARATE ACCOUNT VA Q

By

TRANSAMERICA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Supplement dated June 14, 2010

to the

Prospectus dated May 1, 2010

This Prospectus Supplement must be accompanied or preceded

by the Prospectus for the

Flexible Premium Variable Annuity - B dated May 1, 2010.

The following hereby amends the corresponding paragraphs in “Section 6. Access To Your Money” in the prospectus.

Signature Guarantee

As a protection against fraud, we require a Medallion Signature Guarantee for variable annuities or a Notary Public Stamp for fixed annuities for the following transaction requests:

 

 

All requests for surrenders (i.e. partial surrenders and full surrenders) over $250,000;

 

 

Any non-electronic disbursement request made on or within 15 days of a change to the address of record for a policy owner’s account;

 

 

Any disbursement request made on or within 15 days of an ownership change;

 

 

Any electronic disbursement on or within 15 days of a change to electronic funds transfer instructions;

 

 

Any disbursement request when the Company has been directed to send proceeds to a different personal address from the address of record for that policy owner’s account. PLEASE NOTE: This requirement will not apply to disbursement requests made in connection with exchanges of one annuity policy for another with the same owner in a “tax-free exchange”;

 

 

All requests for surrenders (i.e. partial surrenders and full surrenders) when the Company does not have an originating or guaranteed signature on file.

You can obtain a Medallion signature guarantee from more than 7,000 financial institutions across the United States and Canada that participate in a Medallion signature guarantee program. This includes many:

 

 

National and state banks;

 

 

Savings banks and savings and loan associations;

 

 

Securities brokers and dealers; and

 

 

Credit Unions.

The best source of a Medallion signature guarantee is a bank, savings and loan association, brokerage firm, or credit union with which you do business. Guarantor firms may, but frequently do not, charge a fee for their services.

A notary public cannot provide a Medallion signature guarantee. Notarization will not substitute for a Medallion signature guarantee.