Correspondence 0001133228-24-004579 from MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT 4 (CIK 0001052766)
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL VARIABLE ANNUITY SEPARATE ACCOUNT 4 (CIK 0001052766)
Date: April 25, 2024 · CIK: 0001052766 · Accession: 0001133228-24-004579
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File numbers found in text: 333-255824, 811-08619
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VIA EDGAR United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Investment Management Massachusetts Mutual Variable Annuity Separate Account 4 Post-Effective Amendment No. 7 to Registration Statement filed on Form N-4 MassMutual EnvisionSM – File Nos. 333-255824 & 811-08619
Re: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Dear Ms. Larkin:
Thank you for providing the Staff’s comments regarding the above-referenced filing during our telephone call on March 11, 2024. I have paraphrased your comments below. Thank you for allowing me to respond to the Staff’s comments via e-mail.
The page numbers referenced below correspond to the PDF page numbers of the attached changed pages of the statutory prospectus for Post-Effective Amendment No. 7.
My responses to the Staff’s comments are as follows:
Statutory Prospectus
1. Please consider adding additional disclosure and/or add prominence to existing disclosure explaining that electing the RetirePay Charge Increase Opt-Out is irrevocable.
Response to Comment No. 1: We have bolded the existing disclosure on p. 2 of the PDF and added additional disclosure on p. 1 and p. 3 of the PDF to emphasize that electing the RetirePay Charge Increase Opt-Out is irrevocable.
I appreciate your continuing attention to this filing. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this filing or if there is anything that I can do to facilitate your review of this filing. I may be reached at (413) 218-0992 or jrodolakis@massmutual.com.
Sincerely,
/s/ James M. Rodolakis
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VIA
EDGAR
April
25, 2024
Ms.
Lisa Larkin
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Investment Management
100
F Street, N.E.
Washington,
DC 20549-0506
Re: Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Massachusetts
Mutual Variable Annuity Separate Account 4
Post-Effective
Amendment No. 7 to Registration Statement filed on Form N-4
MassMutual
EnvisionSM – File Nos. 333-255824 & 811-08619
Dear
Ms. Larkin:
Thank
you for providing the Staff’s comments regarding the above-referenced filing during our telephone call on March 11, 2024. I have
paraphrased your comments below. Thank you for allowing me to respond to the Staff’s comments via e-mail.
The
page numbers referenced below correspond to the PDF page numbers of the attached changed pages of the statutory prospectus for Post-Effective
Amendment No. 7.
My
responses to the Staff’s comments are as follows:
Statutory
Prospectus
1. Please
consider adding additional disclosure and/or add prominence to existing disclosure explaining
that electing the RetirePay Charge Increase Opt-Out is irrevocable.
Response
to Comment No. 1: We have bolded the existing disclosure on p. 2 of the PDF and added additional disclosure on p. 1 and p. 3
of the PDF to emphasize that electing the RetirePay Charge Increase Opt-Out is irrevocable.
I
appreciate your continuing attention to this filing. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this filing or if there is
anything that I can do to facilitate your review of this filing. I may be reached at (413) 218-0992 or jrodolakis@massmutual.com.
Sincerely,
/s/ James M. Rodolakis
James M. Rodolakis
Lead Counsel, Annuity Product
& Operations
for Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company