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Supplement Dated May 1, 2014

To the Prospectus dated May 1, 2014

 

ING GoldenSelect Landmark

 

Issued by ING USA Annuity and Life Insurance Company

Through Its Separate Account B

 

 

This supplement updates the prospectus for your variable annuity contract.  Please read it carefully and keep it with your copy of the prospectus for future reference.  If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at 1‑800‑366‑0066. 

 

 

NOTICE OF AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING PROPOSED FUND SUBSTITUTIONS

 

The following information only affects you if you currently invest in the subaccount that corresponds to the Fidelity® VIP Equity-Income Portfolio and/or to the Invesco V.I. American Franchise Fund

 

ING USA Annuity and Life Insurance Company (the "Company") and its Separate Account B (the "Separate Account") have filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit the following "Replaced Funds" to be replaced with the following "Substitute Funds":

 

Replaced Fund

Substitute Fund

Fidelity® VIP Equity-Income Portfolio (Service Class 2)

Voya RussellTM Large Cap Value Index Portfolio

(Class S)

Invesco V.I. American Franchise Fund (Class I)

Voya RussellTM Large Cap Growth Index Portfolio

(Class S)

 

The Replaced Funds are currently closed to new investments and transfers.  The Substitute Funds are  available for new investments or transfers.

 

The principal purposes of the proposed substitutions are as follows:

·      Implement Business Plan.  The substitutions are another step in the Company’s overall business plan to help make the Contracts more attractive to customers and more efficient to administer and oversee.  This plan involves providing funds available through the Contracts that meet certain performance, risk and pricing guidelines.

·      Influence.   The substitutions will replace unaffiliated funds with funds that are advised and sub-advised by affiliates of the Company.  The Substitute Funds will only be available through variable insurance products offered by the Company or their affiliated insurance companies.  Consequently, the Board of the Substitute Funds has greater sensitivity to the needs of Contract Owners.  The Company believes that the substitutions will enable them to exercise more influence over the management and administration of the funds offered through their Contracts, thereby reducing costs and customer confusion.

·      Reduction of Costs.  Substitute Funds, which are managed by affiliated investment advisers, will allow the Company to reduce costs by consolidating administration of the Substitute Funds with its other funds.

·      Due Diligence.  The substitutions will allow the Company to respond to expense, performance and management matters that they have identified in their due diligence review of the funds available through the Contracts.

 

The following lists important information regarding the upcoming fund substitutions:

·      Prior to the fund substitutions you will receive another prospectus supplement which will indicate the substitution effective date, provide you with further details about the Substitute Funds and reiterate your rights related to the substitutions. You will also receive summary prospectuses for the Substitute Funds.

 

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·      Prior to the substitution effective date and for thirty days thereafter you may transfer amounts allocated to the subaccounts that invest in the Replaced Funds to any other available subaccount or any available fixed account free of charge, and any such transfer will not count as a transfer when imposing any applicable restrictions or limits on transfers (other than restrictions related to frequent or disruptive transfers).

·      On the substitution effective date your investment in a subaccount that invests in a Replaced Fund will automatically become an investment in the subaccount that invests in the corresponding Substitute Fund with an equal total net asset value. Your Contract value immediately before the substitutions will equal your Contract value immediately after the substitutions.

·      Unless you provide us with alternative allocation instructions, after the substitution effective date all allocations directed to a subaccount that invested in a Replaced Fund will be automatically allocated to the subaccount that invests in the corresponding Substitute Fund. You may give us alternative allocation instructions at any time by contacting Customer Service at P.O. Box 9271, Des Moines, IA 50306-9271 or call (800) 366-0066.

·      The overall expenses of each Substitute Fund are less than the overall expenses of the corresponding Replaced Fund. The fees and expenses of the Substitute Funds will be provided to you prior to the substitution effective date.

·      The investment objective and investment policies of each Substitute Fund are similar to the investment objective and policies of the corresponding Replaced Fund. The investment objective of the Substitute Funds along with information about each Substitute Fund's investment adviser/subadviser will be provided to you prior to the substitution effective date.

·      After the substitution effective date, the Replaced Fund will no longer be available through the Contract and there will be no further disclosure regarding it in any future Contract prospectus or supplements to the Contract prospectus.

·      You will not incur any fees or charges or any tax liability because of the substitutions.