AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JANUARY 28, 2009
                                                    REGISTRATION NO. 333-103474
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                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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                                   FORM S-3
                            REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                          THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 14

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                         PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                          (Exact Name of Registrant)

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                                    ARIZONA
        (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

                                   22-194455
                    (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

                       C/O PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                             213 WASHINGTON STREET
                         NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102-2992
                                (973) 802-7333
         (Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)

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                               THOMAS C. CASTANO
                                   SECRETARY
                         PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                             213 WASHINGTON STREET
                         NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102-2992
                                (973) 802-4708
          (Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)

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                                  Copies to:

                            C. CHRISTOPHER SPRAGUE
                       VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE COUNSEL
                           THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE
                              COMPANY OF AMERICA
                               751 BROAD STREET
                         NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102-3714
                                (973) 802-6997

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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public--January 28,
2009

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to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box: [_]

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                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE


                                                                   
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TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF                 PROPOSED MAXIMUM    PROPOSED MAXIMUM
   SECURITIES TO BE      AMOUNT TO BE  OFFERING PRICE PER  AGGREGATE OFFERING      AMOUNT OF
      REGISTERED         REGISTERED*         UNIT*               PRICE         REGISTRATION FEE**
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Market-value adjustment
  annuity contracts (or
  modified guaranteed
  annuity contracts).... $200,000,000                        $200,000,000            $-0-
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* Securities are not issued in predetermined units. ** Registration fee for
  these securities was paid at the time they were originally registered on Form
  S-3 as filed by Pruco Life Insurance Company on February 27, 2003.

Prudential Annuities Distributors, Inc., the principal underwriter of these
contracts under a "best efforts" arrangement, will be reimbursed by Pruco Life
Insurance Company of New Jersey for its costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the sale of these contracts.

The Risk Factors section appears in Section 9 of the Summary of the prospectus.
The exhibit index appears in Part II of this Registration Statement.



                                     Note:

Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 14 to Registration
Statement No. 333-103474 for the purpose of including in the Registration
Statement a Prospectus Supplement. The Prospectus and Part II that were filed
as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 filed with the SEC on April 25,
2008, as supplemented, are hereby incorporated by reference. Other than as set
forth herein, this Post-Effective Amendment does not amend or delete any other
part of this Registration Statement.



                                                   PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                                     PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY

 STRATEGIC PARTNERS/SM/ ANNUITY ONE 3 VARIABLE ANNUITY ("SPAO 3")
 STRATEGIC PARTNERS/SM/ PLUS 3 VARIABLE ANNUITY ("SP PLUS 3")
 STRATEGIC PARTNERS/SM/ FLEXELITE VARIABLE ANNUITY ("SP FLEXELITE")


                       Supplement dated February 23, 2009

                                       To
                Prospectuses dated May 1, 2008, as Supplemented


 This supplement should be read and retained with the prospectus and
 supplements for your SPAO 3, SPAO Plus 3, and SP Flex-elite Annuity. If you
 would like another copy of the prospectus or the supplements, please call us
 at 1-888-PRU-2888. The terms used in this supplement are defined in the
 Glossary in the prospectus, unless specifically defined in this supplement.
 The optional living benefits and optional features described in this
 supplement are only being offered in those jurisdictions where we have
 received regulatory approval and will be offered subsequently in other
 jurisdictions when we receive regulatory approval in those jurisdictions.

 This supplement describes new optional living benefits available under each of
 the above-referenced Contracts. If you currently own a Contract with a living
 benefit, you may terminate your existing benefit rider and elect these new
 benefits (subject to our current rules).

 This supplement also describes a new optional feature available to current
 owners of Highest Daily Lifetime Five Income Benefit, Highest Daily Lifetime
 Seven Income Benefit, and Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit
 that, if elected, would provide an alternative asset transfer formula for
 their benefit. Except as otherwise described in this supplement, all terms and
 conditions of your Contract and benefit rider for Highest Daily Lifetime Five
 Income Benefit, Highest Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit or Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit apply and do not change.

 In addition, this supplement also: (1) discusses that certain optional living
 benefits are no longer available (subject to regulatory approval of the
 benefits offered in this supplement); (2) discusses information about
 Section 403(b) annuity contract exchanges; (3) provides information regarding
 purchasing a Contract if you are a beneficiary of an annuity contract that was
 owned by a decedent; and (4) provides additional information with respect to
 Highest Daily Lifetime Five, Highest Daily Lifetime Seven and Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime Seven.





                         SUPPLEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS





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SUMMARY OF CONTRACT EXPENSES...........................................................

 PERIODIC ACCOUNT EXPENSES.............................................................   3

EXPENSE EXAMPLES.......................................................................   4

NEW LIFETIME WITHDRAWAL BENEFITS.......................................................   6

 HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS/SM/ INCOME BENEFIT......................................   6
 SPOUSAL HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS/SM/ INCOME BENEFIT..............................  17
 TERMINATION OF EXISTING BENEFITS AND ELECTION OF NEW BENEFITS.........................  25

INVESTMENT OPTIONS.....................................................................  26

NEW OPTIONAL FEATURE FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME FIVE INCOME BENEFIT, HIGHEST DAILY
  LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME BENEFIT AND SPOUSAL HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME
  BENEFIT..............................................................................  27

 OPTIONAL FEATURE FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME FIVE INCOME BENEFIT.......................  27
 OPTIONAL FEATURE FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME BENEFIT AND SPOUSAL HIGHEST
   DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME BENEFIT.................................................  29

OTHER INFORMATION......................................................................  34

 DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN LIFETIME WITHDRAWAL BENEFITS................................  34
 TAX CONSIDERATIONS - TYPES OF TAX-FAVORED PLANS.......................................  34
 "BENEFICIARY" ANNUITY.................................................................  34
 ASSET TRANSFER COMPONENT OF HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME FIVE...............................  35
 ASSET TRANSFER COMPONENT OF HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN AND ASSET TRANSFER COMPONENT
   OF SPOUSAL HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN.............................................  37



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 The following line items are added to the prospectus (on page 14 for Pruco
 Life ("PL") SPAO 3, page 13 for Pruco Life of New Jersey ("PLNJ") SPAO 3, page
 13 for Flexelite, page 14 for PL SPAO Plus 3, and page 13 for PLNJ SPAO Plus
 3) section "Summary of Contract Expenses - Insurance and Administrative
 Expenses with the Indicated Benefits." The entire table of "Summary of
 Contract Expenses" can be found on page 13 PL SPAO 3, page 12 PLNJ SPAO 3,
 page 12 Flexelite, page 13 PL SPAO Plus, and page 12 PLNJ SPAO Plus of your
 prospectus.





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                                         PERIODIC ACCOUNT EXPENSES/1/
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          OPTIONAL BENEFIT              OPTIONAL       TOTAL       TOTAL        TOTAL          TOTAL        TOTAL
                                       BENEFIT FEE/   ANNUAL      ANNUAL        ANNUAL         ANNUAL       ANNUAL
                                         CHARGE      CHARGE /2/  CHARGE /2/   CHARGE /2/     CHARGE /2/    CHARGE /2/
                                                     for SPAO 3  for SPAO 3  for SP PLUS 3  for SP PLUS 3   for SP
                                                     CONTRACT    CONTRACT      CONTRACT       CONTRACT     FLEXELITE
                                                       with       without        with         without
                                                      CREDIT      CREDIT        CREDIT         CREDIT
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HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS
Maximum Charge /3/                     1.50% of PWV  1.50% +     1.40% +       1.50% +        1.40% +      1.65% +
                                                     1.50% of    1.50% of      1.50% of       1.50% of     1.50% of
                                                       PWV         PWV           PWV            PWV          PWV
Current Charge                         0.75% of PWV  1.50% +     1.40% +       1.50% +        1.40% +      1.65% +
                                                     0.75% of    0.75% of      0.75% of       0.75% of     0.75% of
                                                       PWV         PWV           PWV            PWV          PWV
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SPOUSAL HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS
Maximum Charge /3/                     1.50% of PWV  1.50% +     1.40% +       1.50% +        1.40% +      1.65% +
                                                     1.50% of    1.50% of      1.50% of       1.50% of     1.50% of
                                                       PWV         PWV           PWV            PWV          PWV
Current Charge                         0.90% of PWV  1.50% +     1.40% +       1.50% +        1.40% +      1.65% +
                                                     0.90% of    0.90% of      0.90% of       0.90% of     0.90% of
                                                       PWV         PWV           PWV            PWV          PWV
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 How Charge is Determined

 1. Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. Charge for this benefit is assessed against
    the Protected Withdrawal Value ("PWV"). As discussed in the description of
    the benefit, the charge is taken out of the Sub-accounts. SPAO 3, 0.75% of
    PWV is in addition to 1.50% annual charge of amounts invested in the
    Sub-accounts. For SP Plus 3, 0.75% of PWV is in addition to 1.50% annual
    charge of amounts invested in the Sub-accounts. For both SPAO 3 and SP
    Plus 3 Contracts without the Credit, the 0.75% is in addition to 1.40%
    annual charge of amounts invested in the Sub-accounts. For SP Flexelite,
    0.75% of PWV is in addition to 1.65% annual charge of amounts invested in
    the Sub-accounts (or 1.60% annual charge of amounts invested in the
    Sub-accounts for contracts sold prior to May 1, 2003, or upon subsequent
    state approval).
    Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. Charge for this benefit is assessed
    against the Protected Withdrawal Value ("PWV"). As discussed in the
    description of the benefit, the charge is taken out of the Sub-accounts.
    SPAO 3, 0.90% of PWV is in addition to 1.50% annual charge of amounts
    invested in the Sub-accounts. For SP Plus 3, 0.90% of PWV is in addition to
    1.50% annual charge of amounts invested in the Sub-accounts. For both SPAO
    3 and SP Plus 3 Contracts without the Credit, the 0.90% is in addition to
    1.40% annual charge of amounts invested in the Sub-accounts. For SP
    Flexelite, 0.90% of PWV is in addition to 1.65% annual charge of amounts
    invested in the Sub-accounts (or 1.60% annual charge of amounts invested in
    the Sub-accounts for contracts sold prior to May 1, 2003, or upon
    subsequent state approval).
 2. The Total Annual Charge includes the Insurance Charge assessed against the
    average daily net assets allocated to the Sub-accounts. If you elect more
    than one optional benefit, the Total Annual Charge would be increased to
    include the charge for each optional benefit.
 3. We reserve the right to increase the charge to the maximum charge
    indicated, upon any step-up or reset under the benefit, or new election of
    the benefit.


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                               EXPENSE EXAMPLES

 For Pruco Life of New Jersey SPAO 3 and Pruco Life of New Jersey SP Plus 3
 only, we replace the existing expense examples with the following:

 Below are examples for each Contract showing what you would pay in expenses at
 the end of the stated time periods had you invested $10,000 in the Contract
 and your investment has a 5% return each year.



 Example 1a: Contract With Credit: Step-Up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit,
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit, and You Withdraw All Your Assets
 This example assumes that:
   .   You invest $10,000 in the Contract With Credit,
   .   You choose the Step-Up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit,
   .   You choose the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit,
   .   You allocate all of your assets to the variable investment option having
       the maximum total operating expenses,*
   .   The investment has a 5% return each year,
   .   The mutual fund's total operating expenses remain the same each year,
   .   For each optional benefit charge, we deduct the maximum charge rather
       than any current charge, and
   .   You withdraw all your assets at the end of the indicated period.

 *  Note: Not all portfolios offered are available if you elect certain
    optional benefits.

 Example 1b: Contract With Credit: Step-Up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit,
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit, and You Do Not Withdraw Your
 Assets

 This example makes exactly the same assumptions as Example 1a except that it
 assumes that you do not withdraw any of your assets at the end of the
 indicated period.

 Example 2a: Contract With Credit: Base Death Benefit, and You Withdraw All
 Your Assets
 This example assumes that:
   .   You invest $10,000 in the Contract With Credit,
   .   You do not choose any optional insurance benefit,
   .   You allocate all of your assets to the variable investment option having
       the maximum total operating expenses,*
   .   The investment has a 5% return each year,
   .   The mutual fund's total operating expenses remain the same each year,
   .   For each optional benefit charge, we deduct the maximum charge rather
       than any current charge, and
   .   You withdraw all your assets at the end of the indicated period.

 Example 2b: Contract With Credit: Base Death Benefit, and You Do Not Withdraw
 Your Assets

 This example makes exactly the same assumptions as Example 2a except that it
 assumes that you do not withdraw any of your assets at the end of the
 indicated period.

 Example 3a: Contract Without Credit: Step-Up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit,
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit, and You Withdraw All Your Assets

 This example makes exactly the same assumptions as Example 1a except that it
 assumes that you invest in the Contract Without Credit.

 Example 3b: Contract Without Credit: Step-Up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit,
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit, and You Do Not Withdraw Your
 Assets

 This example makes exactly the same assumptions as Example 1b except that it
 assumes that you invest in the Contract Without Credit.

 Example 4a: Contract Without Credit: Base Death Benefit; and You Withdraw All
 Your Assets

 This example makes exactly the same assumptions as Example 2a except that it
 assumes that you invest in the Contract Without Credit.


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 Example 4b: Contract Without Credit: Base Death Benefit; and You Do Not
 Withdraw Your Assets

 This example makes exactly the same assumptions as Example 2b except that it
 assumes that you invest in the Contract Without Credit.

 Notes for Expense Examples:
 These Examples should not be considered a representation of past or future
 expenses. Actual expenses may be greater or less than those shown.

 Contract With Credit: Step-up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Option, Spousal
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit





         Example 1a: If You Withdraw Your Assets  Example 1b: If You Do Not Withdraw Your Assets
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          1 yr      3 yrs     5 yrs     10 yrs    1 yr       3 yrs        5 yrs       10 yrs
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         $1,231     $2,196    $3,074    $4,881    $479       $1,444       $2,416      $4,881
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 Contract With Credit: Base Death Benefit





         Example 2a: If You Withdraw Your Assets  Example 2b: If You Do Not Withdraw Your Assets
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          1 yr      3 yrs     5 yrs     10 yrs    1 yr       3 yrs        5 yrs       10 yrs
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         $1,206     $2,122    $2,957    $4,674    $454       $1,370       $2,299      $4,674
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 Contract Without Credit: Step-up Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Option,
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit





         Example 3a: If You Withdraw Your Assets  Example 3b: If You Do Not Withdraw Your Assets
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          1 yr      3 yrs     5 yrs     10 yrs    1 yr       3 yrs        5 yrs       10 yrs
         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 
         $1,081     $1,810    $2,548    $4,614    $451       $1,360       $2,278      $4,614
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 Contract Without Credit: Base Death Benefit





         Example 4a: If You Withdraw Your Assets  Example 4 b: If You Do Not Withdraw Your Assets
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          1 yr      3 yrs     5 yrs     10 yrs    1 yr       3 yrs        5 yrs        10 yrs
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         $1,057     $1,739    $2,435    $4,413    $427       $1,289       $2,165       $4,413
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                      I. NEW LIFETIME WITHDRAWAL BENEFITS

 1. We add the following new lifetime withdrawal benefits to the prospectus:


 HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS/SM/ INCOME BENEFIT (HD 7 Plus)/SM/

 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is offered as a replacement to Highest Daily
 Lifetime Seven in those jurisdictions where we have received regulatory
 approval. Currently, if you elect Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and
 subsequently terminate the benefit, you may elect another lifetime withdrawal
 benefit, subject to our current rules. See "Election of and Designations under
 the Program" and "Termination of Existing Benefits and Election of New
 Benefits" below for details. Please note that if you terminate Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus and elect another lifetime benefit, you lose the guarantees
 that you had accumulated under your existing benefit and will begin the new
 guarantees under the new benefit you elect based on your Contract Value as of
 the date the new benefit becomes active. The income benefit under Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus currently is based on a single "designated life" who is
 at least 45 years old on the date that the benefit is acquired. The Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit is not available if you elect any other optional
 living benefit, although you may elect any optional death benefit other than
 the Highest Daily Value death benefit. As long as your Highest Daily Lifetime
 7 Plus Benefit is in effect, you must allocate your Contract Value in
 accordance with the then permitted and available investment option(s) with
 this program. For a more detailed description of the permitted investment
 options, see the "Investment Options" section below and in your prospectus on
 page 23 for PL SPAO 3, page 21 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 22 for Flexelite, page
 .23 for PL SPAO Plus 3, and page 21 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3.

 We offer a benefit that guarantees until the death of the single designated
 life (the Annuitant) the ability to withdraw an annual amount (the "Annual
 Income Amount") equal to a percentage of an initial principal value (the
 "Protected Withdrawal Value") regardless of the impact of Sub-account
 performance on the Contract Value, subject to our program rules regarding the
 timing and amount of withdrawals. You are guaranteed to be able to withdraw
 the Annual Income Amount for the rest of your life ("Lifetime Withdrawals"),
 provided that you have not made "excess withdrawals" that have resulted in
 your Contract Value being reduced to zero. We also permit you to make a
 one-time Non-Lifetime Withdrawal from your Annuity prior to taking Lifetime
 Withdrawals under the benefit. Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus may be
 appropriate if you intend to make periodic withdrawals from your Annuity, and
 wish to ensure that Sub-account performance will not affect your ability to
 receive annual payments. You are not required to make withdrawals as part of
 the benefit - the guarantees are not lost if you withdraw less than the
 maximum allowable amount each year under the rules of the benefit. As
 discussed below, we require that you participate in our asset transfer program
 in order to participate in Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus.

 Although you are guaranteed the ability to withdraw your Annual Income Amount
 for life even if your Contract Value falls to zero, if you take an excess
 withdrawal that brings your Contract Value to zero, it is possible that your
 Annual Income Amount could also fall to zero. In that scenario, no further
 amount would be payable under the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.


 Key Feature - Protected Withdrawal Value

 The Protected Withdrawal Value is used to calculate the initial Annual Income
 Amount. The Protected Withdrawal Value is separate from your Contract Value
 and not available as cash or a lump sum. On the effective date of the benefit,
 the Protected Withdrawal Value is equal to your Contract Value. On each
 Business Day thereafter until the date of your first Lifetime Withdrawal
 (excluding any Non-Lifetime Withdrawal discussed below), the Protected
 Withdrawal Value is equal to the "Periodic Value" described in the next
 paragraphs.

 The "Periodic Value" initially is equal to the Contract Value on the effective
 date of the benefit. On each Business Day thereafter until the first Lifetime
 Withdrawal, we recalculate the Periodic Value. We stop determining the
 Periodic Value upon your first Lifetime Withdrawal after the effective date of
 the benefit. On each Business Day (the "Current Business Day"), the Periodic
 Value is equal to the greater of:

 (1)the Periodic Value for the immediately preceding business day (the "Prior
    Business Day") appreciated at the daily equivalent of 7% annually during
    the calendar day(s) between the Prior Business Day and the Current Business
    Day (i.e., one day for successive Business Days, but more than one calendar
    day for Business Days that are separated by weekends and/or holidays), plus
    the amount of any adjusted Purchase Payment made on the Current Business
    Day (the Periodic Value is proportionally reduced for any Non-Lifetime
    Withdrawal); and
 (2)the Contract Value.


 If you have not made a Lifetime Withdrawal on or before the 10/th/, 20/th/, or
 25/th/ Anniversary of the effective date of the benefit, your Periodic Value
 on the 10/th/, 20/th/, or 25/th/ Anniversary of the benefit effective date is
 equal to the greater of:

 (1)the Periodic Value described above or,


 (2)the sum of (a), (b) and (c) below (proportionally reduced for any
    Non-Lifetime Withdrawals):

       (a)200% (on the 10/th/ anniversary), 400% (on the 20/th/ anniversary) or
          600% (on the 25/th/ anniversary) of the Contract Value on the
          effective date of the benefit;


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       (b)200% (on the 10/th/ anniversary), 400% (on the 20/th/ anniversary) or
          600% (on the 25/th/ anniversary) of all adjusted Purchase Payments
          made within one year following the effective date of the benefit; and

       (c)all adjusted Purchase Payments made after one year following the
          effective date of the benefit.


 On and after the date of your first Lifetime Withdrawal, your Protected
 Withdrawal Value is increased by the amount of any subsequent Purchase
 Payments, is reduced by withdrawals, including your first Lifetime Withdrawal
 (as described below), and may be increased if you qualify for a step-up (as
 described below).

 Return of Principal Guarantee

 If you have not made a Lifetime Withdrawal before the Tenth Anniversary, we
 will increase your Contract Value on that Tenth Anniversary (or the next
 Business Day, if that anniversary is not a Business Day), if the requirements
 set forth in this paragraph are met. On the Tenth Anniversary, we add:

 a) your Contract Value on the day that you elected Highest Daily Lifetime 7
    Plus proportionally reduced for any Non-Lifetime Withdrawal; and

 b) the sum of each Purchase Payment proportionally reduced for any subsequent
    Non-Lifetime Withdrawal (including the amount of any associated Credits)
    you made during the one-year period after you elected the benefit.


 If the sum of (a) and (b) is greater than your Contract Value on the Tenth
 Anniversary, we increase your Contract Value to equal the sum of (a) and (b),
 by contributing funds from our general account. If the sum of (a) and (b) is
 less than or equal to your Contract Value on the Tenth Anniversary, we make no
 such adjustment. The amount that we add to your Contract Value under this
 provision will be allocated to each of your variable investment options
 (including the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account), in the same proportion
 that each such Sub-account bears to your total Contract Value, immediately
 before the application of the amount. Any such amount will not be considered a
 Purchase Payment when calculating your Protected Withdrawal Value, your death
 benefit, or the amount of any optional benefit that you may have selected, and
 therefore will have no direct impact on any such values at the time we add
 this amount. Because the amount is added to Contract Value, it will also be
 subject to each charge under your Contract based on Contract Value. This
 potential addition to Contract Value is available only if you have elected
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and if you meet the conditions set forth in this
 paragraph. Thus, if you take a withdrawal (other than a Non-Lifetime
 Withdrawal) prior to the Tenth Anniversary, you are not eligible to receive
 the Return of Principal Guarantee. The Return of Principal Guarantee is
 referred to as the Guaranteed Minimum Contract Value Credit in the benefit
 rider.


 Key Feature - Annual Income Amount under the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
 Benefit

 The Annual Income Amount is equal to a specified percentage of the Protected
 Withdrawal Value. The percentage initially depends on the age of the Annuitant
 on the date of the first Lifetime Withdrawal after election of the benefit.
 The percentages are: 4% for ages 45 - less than 59 1/2, 5% for ages 59 1/2-74,
 6% for ages 75-79, 7% for ages 80-84, and 8% for ages 85 and older. Under the
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit, if your cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals
 in a Contract Year are less than or equal to the Annual Income Amount, they
 will not reduce your Annual Income Amount in subsequent Contract Years, but
 any such withdrawals will reduce the Annual Income Amount on a
 dollar-for-dollar basis in that Contract Year. If your cumulative Lifetime
 Withdrawals in a Contract Year are in excess of the Annual Income Amount
 ("Excess Income"), your Annual Income Amount in subsequent years will be
 reduced (except with regard to required minimum distributions for this
 Contract that comply with our rules) by the result of the ratio of the Excess
 Income to the Contract Value immediately prior to such withdrawal (see
 examples of this calculation below). Reductions are based on the actual amount
 of the withdrawal, including any CDSC that may apply. Lifetime Withdrawals of
 any amount up to and including the Annual Income Amount will reduce the
 Protected Withdrawal Value by the amount of the withdrawal. Withdrawals of
 Excess Income will reduce the Protected Withdrawal Value by the same ratio as
 the reduction to the Annual Income Amount.

 Note that if your withdrawal of the Annual Income Amount in a given Contract
 Year exceeds the applicable free withdrawal amount under the Contract (but is
 not considered Excess Income), we will not impose any CDSC on the amount of
 that withdrawal.


 You may use the Systematic Withdrawal program to make withdrawals of the
 Annual Income Amount. Any systematic withdrawal will be deemed a Lifetime
 Withdrawal under this benefit.

 Any Purchase Payment that you make subsequent to the election of Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus will (i) increase the then-existing Annual Income Amount by an
 amount equal to a percentage of the Purchase Payment (including the amount of
 any associated Credits) based on the age of the Annuitant at the time of the
 first Lifetime Withdrawal (the percentages are: 4% for ages 45 - less than
 59 1/2, 5% for ages 59 1/2-74, 6% for ages 75-79, 7% for ages 80-84, and 8%
 for ages 85 and older) and (ii) increase the Protected Withdrawal Value by the
 amount of the Purchase Payment (including the amount of any associated
 Credits).

 Highest Daily Auto Step-Up

 An automatic step-up feature ("Highest Daily Auto Step-Up") is part of Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. As detailed in this paragraph, the Highest Daily Auto
 Step-Up feature can result in a larger Annual Income Amount subsequent to your
 first Lifetime


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 Withdrawal. The Highest Daily Auto Step-Up starts with the anniversary of the
 Contract Date of the Contract (the "Contract Anniversary") immediately after
 your first Lifetime Withdrawal under the benefit. Specifically, upon the first
 such Contract Anniversary, we identify the Contract Value on each Business Day
 within the immediately preceding Contract Year after your first Lifetime
 Withdrawal. Having identified the highest daily value (after all daily values
 have been adjusted for subsequent purchase payments and withdrawals), we then
 multiply that value by a percentage that varies based on the age of the
 Annuitant on the Contract Anniversary as of which the step-up would occur. The
 percentages are: 4% for ages 45 - less than 59 1/2, 5% for ages 59 1/2-74, 6%
 for ages 75-79, 7% for ages 80-84, and 8% for ages 85 and older. If that value
 exceeds the existing Annual Income Amount, we replace the existing amount with
 the new, higher amount. Otherwise, we leave the existing Annual Income Amount
 intact. The Contract Value on the Contract Anniversary is considered the last
 daily step-up value of the Contract Year. All daily valuations and annual
 step-ups will only occur on a Business Day. In later years (i.e., after the
 first Contract Anniversary after the first Lifetime Withdrawal), we determine
 whether an automatic step-up should occur on each Contract Anniversary, by
 performing a similar examination of the Contract Values that occurred on
 Business Days during the year. At the time that we increase your Annual Income
 Amount, we also increase your Protected Withdrawal Value to equal the highest
 daily value upon which your step-up was based only if that results in an
 increase to the Protected Withdrawal Value. Your Protected Withdrawal Value
 will never be decreased as a result of an income step-up. If, on the date that
 we implement a Highest Daily Auto Step-Up to your Annual Income Amount, the
 charge for Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus has changed for new purchasers, you
 may be subject to the new charge at the time of such step-up. Prior to
 increasing your charge for Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus upon a step-up, we
 would notify you, and give you the opportunity to cancel the automatic step-up
 feature. If you receive notice of a proposed step-up and accompanying fee
 increase, you should carefully evaluate whether the amount of the step-up
 justifies the increased fee to which you will be subject.


 If you establish a Systematic Withdrawal program, we will not automatically
 increase the withdrawal amount when there is an increase to the Annual Income
 Amount.


 The Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus program does not affect your ability to make
 withdrawals under your Contract, or limit your ability to request withdrawals
 that exceed the Annual Income Amount. Under Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, if
 your cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals in a Contract Year are less than or equal
 to the Annual Income Amount, they will not reduce your Annual Income Amount in
 subsequent Contract Years, but any such withdrawals will reduce the Annual
 Income Amount on a dollar-for-dollar basis in that Contract Year.

 If, cumulatively, you withdraw an amount less than the Annual Income Amount in
 any Contract Year, you cannot carry over the unused portion of the Annual
 Income Amount to subsequent Contract Years.

 Because each of the Protected Withdrawal Value and Annual Income Amount is
 determined in a way that is not solely related to Contract Value, it is
 possible for the Contract Value to fall to zero, even though the Annual Income
 Amount remains.


 Examples of dollar-for-dollar and proportional reductions, and the Highest
 Daily Auto Step-Up are set forth below. The values shown here are purely
 hypothetical, and do not reflect the charges for the Highest Daily Lifetime 7
 Plus benefit or any other fees and charges. Assume the following for all three
 examples:

   .   The Contract Date is December 1, 2008

   .   The Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit is elected on March 5, 2009
   .   The Annuitant was 70 years old when he/she elected the Highest Daily
       Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.



 Example of dollar-for-dollar reductions

 On November 24, 2009, the Protected Withdrawal Value is $120,000, resulting in
 an Annual Income Amount of $6,000 (since the Annuitant is between the ages of
 59 1/2 and 74 at the time of the first Lifetime Withdrawal, the Annual Income
 Amount is 5% of the Protected Withdrawal Value, in this case 5% of $120,000).
 Assuming $2,500 is withdrawn from the Contract on this date, the remaining
 Annual Income Amount for that Contract Year (up to and including December 1,
 2009) is $3,500. This is the result of a dollar-for-dollar reduction of the
 Annual Income Amount ($6,000 less $2,500 = $3,500).


 Example of proportional reductions

 Continuing the previous example, assume an additional withdrawal of $5,000
 occurs on November 27, 2009 and the Contract Value at the time and immediately
 prior to this withdrawal is $118,000. The first $3,500 of this withdrawal
 reduces the Annual Income Amount for that Contract Year to $0. The remaining
 withdrawal amount of $1,500 - reduces the Annual Income Amount in future
 Contract Years on a proportional basis based on the ratio of the excess
 withdrawal to the Contract Value immediately prior to the excess withdrawal.
 (Note that if there are other future withdrawals in that Contract Year, each
 would result in another proportional reduction to the Annual Income Amount).


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 Here is the calculation:



                                                               
  Contract Value before Lifetime Withdrawal                       $118,000.00
  Less amount of "non" excess withdrawal                          $  3,500.00
  Contract Value immediately before excess withdrawal of $1,500   $114,500.00
  Excess withdrawal amount                                        $  1,500.00
  Divided by Contract Value immediately before excess withdrawal  $114,500.00
  Ratio                                                                  1.31%
  Annual Income Amount                                            $  6,000.00
  Less ratio of 1.31%                                             $     78.60
  Annual Income Amount for future Contract Years                  $  5,921.40



 Example of highest daily auto step-up

 On each Contract Anniversary date, the Annual Income Amount is stepped-up if
 the appropriate percentage (based on the Annuitant's age on the Contract
 Anniversary) of the highest daily value since your first Lifetime Withdrawal
 (or last Contract Anniversary in subsequent years), adjusted for withdrawals
 and additional Purchase Payments, is higher than the Annual Income Amount,
 adjusted for excess withdrawals and additional Purchase Payments (including
 the amount of any associated Credits).

 Continuing the same example as above, the Annual Income Amount for this
 Contract Year is $6,000. However, the excess withdrawal on November 27 reduces
 the amount to $5,921.40 for future years (see above). For the next Contract
 Year, the Annual Income Amount will be stepped up if 5% (since the designated
 life is younger than 75 on the date of the potential step-up) of the highest
 daily Contract Value adjusted for withdrawals and Purchase Payments (including
 the amount of any associated Credits), is higher than $5,921.40. Here are the
 calculations for determining the daily values. Only the November 25 value is
 being adjusted for excess withdrawals as the November 30 and December 1
 Business Days occur after the excess withdrawal on November 26.





                                    Highest Daily Value
                                      (adjusted with          Adjusted Annual
                                  withdrawal and Purchase Income Amount (5% of the
Date*              Contract Value       Payments)**         Highest Daily Value)
- -----              -------------- ----------------------- ------------------------
                                                 
November 25, 2009   $119,000.00      $      119,000.00           $5,950.00
November 26, 2009                     Thanksgiving Day
November 27, 2009   $113,000.00      $      113,986.95           $5,699.35
November 30, 2009   $113,000.00      $      113,986.95           $5,699.35
December 01, 2009   $119,000.00      $      119,000.00           $5,950.00




 *  In this example, the Contract Anniversary date is December 1. The Valuation
    Dates are every day following the first Lifetime Withdrawal. In subsequent
    Contract Years Valuation Dates will be every day following the Contract
    Anniversary. The Contract Anniversary Date of December 1 is considered the
    final Valuation Date for the Contract Year.

 ** In this example, the first daily value after the first Lifetime Withdrawal
    is $119,000 on November 25, resulting in an adjusted Annual Income Amount
    of $5,950.00. This amount is adjusted on November 27 to reflect the $5,000
    withdrawal. The calculations for the adjustments are:

   .   The Contract Value of $119,000 on November 25 is first reduced
       dollar-for-dollar by $3,500 ($3,500 is the remaining Annual Income
       Amount for the Contract Year), resulting in an adjusted Contract Value
       of $115,500 before the excess withdrawal.
   .   This amount ($115,500) is further reduced by 1.31% (this is the ratio in
       the above example which is the excess withdrawal divided by the Contract
       Value immediately preceding the excess withdrawal) resulting in a
       Highest Daily Value of $113,986.95.
   .   The adjusted Annual Income Amount is carried forward to the next
       Valuation Date of November 30. At this time, we compare this amount to
       5% of the Contract Value on November 30. Since the November 27 adjusted
       Annual Income Amount of $5,699.35 is higher than $5,650.00 (5% of
       $113,000), we continue to carry $5,699.35 forward to the next and final
       Valuation Date of December 1. The Contract Value on December 1 is
       $119,000 and 5% of this amount is $5,950. Since this is higher than
       $5,699.35, the adjusted Annual Income Amount is reset to $5,950.00.

 In this example, 5% of the December 1 value results in the highest amount of
 $5,950.00. Since this amount is higher than the current year's Annual Income
 Amount of $5,921.40 adjusted for excess withdrawals, the Annual Income Amount
 for the next Contract Year, starting on December 2, 2009 and continuing
 through December 1, 2010, will be stepped-up to $5,950.00.


 Non-Lifetime Withdrawal Feature

 You may take a one-time non-lifetime withdrawal ("Non-Lifetime Withdrawal")
 under Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. It is an optional feature of the benefit
 that you can only elect at the time of your first withdrawal. The amount of
 the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal cannot be more than the amount that would cause
 the Contract to be taken below the minimum Surrender Value after a withdrawal
 for your Contract (See "How Can I Access My Money?" in the prospectus on page
 92 for PL SPAO 3, page 87 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 92 for Flexelite, page 94 for
 PL SPAO plus 3 and page 84 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3). This Non-Lifetime Withdrawal
 will not establish your initial Annual Income Amount and the Periodic Value
 described above will continue to be calculated. However, the total amount of
 the withdrawal will proportionally reduce all guarantees associated with the
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit. You must tell us if your withdrawal is
 intended to be the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal and not the first


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 Lifetime Withdrawal under the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit. If you
 don't elect the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal, the first withdrawal you make will be
 the first Lifetime Withdrawal that establishes your Protected Withdrawal Value
 and Annual Income Amount. Once you elect to take the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal
 or Lifetime Withdrawals, no additional Non-Lifetime Withdrawals may be taken.


 The Non-Lifetime Withdrawal will proportionally reduce the Protected
 Withdrawal Value, the Return of Principal guarantee, and the Periodic Value
 guarantees on the tenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the
 benefit effective date, described above, by the percentage the total
 withdrawal amount (including any applicable CDSC) represents of the then
 current Contract Value immediately prior to the withdrawal.

 If you are participating in a Systematic Withdrawal program, the first
 withdrawal under the program cannot be classified as the Non-Lifetime
 Withdrawal. The first partial withdrawal in payment of any third party
 investment advisory service from your Contract also cannot be classified as
 the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal.


 Example - Non-Lifetime Withdrawal (proportional reduction)
 This example is purely hypothetical and does not reflect the charges for the
 benefit or any other fees and charges. It is intended to illustrate the
 proportional reduction of the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal under this benefit.



 Assume the following:

   .   The Contract Date is December 1, 2008

   .   The Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit is elected on March 5, 2009

   .   The Contract Value at benefit election was $105,000

   .   The Annuitant was 70 years old when he/she elected the Highest Daily
       Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.
   .   No previous withdrawals have been taken under the Highest Daily Lifetime
       7 Plus benefit.


 On May 2, 2009, the Protected Withdrawal Value is $125,000, the 10/th/ benefit
 year minimum Periodic Value guarantee is $210,000, the 10/th/ benefit year
 Return of Principal guarantee is $105,000, the 20/th/ benefit year minimum
 Periodic Value guarantee is $420,000, the 25/th/ benefit year minimum Periodic
 Value guarantee is $630,000 and the Contract Value is $120,000. Assuming
 $15,000 is withdrawn from the Contract on May 2, 2009 and is designated as a
 Non-Lifetime Withdrawal, all guarantees associated with the Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus benefit will be reduced by the ratio the total withdrawal
 amount represents of the Contract Value just prior to the withdrawal being
 taken.


 Here is the calculation:



                                                              
      Withdrawal Amount divided by                               $ 15,000
      Contract Value before withdrawal                           $120,000
      Equals ratio                                                   12.5%
      All guarantees will be reduced by the above ratio (12.5%)
      Protected Withdrawal Value                                 $109,375
      10/th/ benefit year Return of Principal                    $ 91,875
      10/th/ benefit year Minimum Periodic Value                 $183,750
      20/th/ benefit year Minimum Periodic Value                 $367,500
      25/th/ benefit year Minimum Periodic Value                 $551,250



 Required Minimum Distributions

 Withdrawals that exceed the Annual Income Amount, but which you are required
 to take as a required minimum distribution for this Contract, will not reduce
 the Annual Income Amount for future years. No additional Annual Income Amounts
 will be available in a Contract Year due to required minimum distributions
 unless the required minimum distribution amount is greater than the Annual
 Income Amount. Any withdrawal you take that exceeds the Annual Income Amount
 in Contract Years that your required minimum distribution amount is not
 greater than the Annual Income Amount will be treated as an Excess Withdrawal
 under the benefit. If the required minimum distribution (as calculated by us
 for your Contract and not previously withdrawn in the current calendar year)
 is greater than the Annual Income Amount, an amount equal to the remaining
 Annual Income Amount plus the difference between the required minimum
 distribution amount not previously withdrawn in the current calendar year and
 the Annual Income Amount will be available in the current Contract Year
 without it being considered an excess withdrawal.


 Example - required minimum distributions

 The following example is purely hypothetical and is intended to illustrate a
 scenario in which the required minimum distribution amount in a given Contract
 Year is greater than the Annual Income Amount. In the event that a required
 minimum distribution is calculated in a calendar year that crosses more than
 one Contract Year and you choose to satisfy the entire required minimum
 distribution for that calendar year in the next Contract Year, the
 distribution taken in the next Contract Year will reduce your Annual Income
 Amount in that Contract Year on a dollar for dollar basis. If the required
 minimum distribution not taken in the prior Contract Year is greater than the
 Annual Income Amount as guaranteed by the benefit in the current Contract
 Year, the total required minimum distribution amount may be taken without
 being treated as an excess withdrawal.


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 Annual Income Amount = $5,000
 Remaining Annual Income Amount = $3,000
 Required Minimum Distribution = $6,000


 The amount you may withdraw in the current Contract Year without it being
 treated as an Excess Withdrawal is $4,000. ($3,000 + ($6,000 - $5,000) =
 $4,000).

 If the $4,000 withdrawal is taken, the remaining Annual Income Amount will be
 zero and the remaining required minimum distribution amount of $2,000 may be
 taken in the subsequent Contract Year (when your Annual Income Amount is reset
 to $5,000) without proportionally reducing all of the guarantees associated
 with the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit as described above.

 The amount you may withdraw in the subsequent Contract Year if you choose not
 to satisfy the RMD in the current Contract Year (assuming the Annual Income
 Amount in the subsequent Contract Year is $5000.00), without being treated as
 an Excess Withdrawal is $6000.00. This withdrawal must comply with all IRS
 guidelines in order to satisfy the Required Minimum Distribution for the
 current calendar year.

 Benefits Under Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
..   To the extent that your Contract Value was reduced to zero as a result of
    cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals in an Contract Year that are less than or
    equal to the Annual Income Amount or as a result of the fee that we assess
    for Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, and amounts are still payable under
    Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, we will make an additional payment, if any,
    for that Contract Year equal to the remaining Annual Income Amount for the
    Contract Year. Thus, in that scenario, the remaining Annual Income Amount
    would be payable even though your Contract Value was reduced to zero. In
    subsequent Contract Years we make payments that equal the Annual Income
    Amount as described in this section. We will make payments until the death
    of the single designated life. To the extent that cumulative withdrawals in
    the Contract Year that reduced your Contract Value to zero are more than
    the Annual Income Amount, the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit
    terminates, and no additional payments are made. However, if a withdrawal
    in the latter scenario was taken to satisfy a required minimum distribution
    under the Annuity, then the benefit will not terminate, and we will
    continue to pay the Annual Income Amount in subsequent Contract Years until
    the death of the Designated Life.
..   If Annuity payments are to begin under the terms of your Annuity, or if you
    decide to begin receiving Annuity payments and there is an Annual Income
    Amount due in subsequent Contract Years, you can elect one of the following
    two options:

       (1)apply your Contract Value to any Annuity option available; or

       (2)request that, as of the date Annuity payments are to begin, we make
          Annuity payments each year equal to the Annual Income Amount. If this
          option is elected, the Annual Income Amount will not increase after
          annuity payments have begun. We will make payments until the death of
          the single designated life. We must receive your request in a form
          acceptable to us at our office.

..   In the absence of an election when mandatory annuity payments are to begin,
    we will make annual annuity payments in the form of a single life fixed
    annuity with ten payments certain, by applying the greater of the annuity
    rates then currently available or the annuity rates guaranteed in your
    Annuity. The amount that will be applied to provide such Annuity payments
    will be the greater of:

       (1)the present value of the future Annual Income Amount payments. Such
          present value will be calculated using the greater of the single life
          fixed annuity rates then currently available or the single life fixed
          annuity rates guaranteed in your Annuity; and

       (2)the Contract Value.


..   If no Lifetime Withdrawal was ever taken, we will calculate the Annual
    Income Amount as if you made your first Lifetime Withdrawal on the date the
    annuity payments are to begin.

..   Please note that payments that we make under this benefit after the
    Contract Anniversary coinciding with or next following the annuitant's
    95/th/ birthday will be treated as annuity payments.


 Other Important Considerations

..   Withdrawals under the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit are subject to
    all of the terms and conditions of the Annuity, including any applicable
    CDSC for the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal as well as withdrawals that exceed the
    Annual Income Amount.

..   Withdrawals made while the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit is in
    effect will be treated, for tax purposes, in the same way as any other
    withdrawals under the Annuity.

..   You can make withdrawals from your Annuity while your Contract Value is
    greater than zero without purchasing the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
    benefit. The Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit provides a guarantee
    that if your Contract Value is


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   reduced to zero (subject to our program rules regarding time and amount of
    withdrawals), you will be able to receive your Annual Income Amount in the
    form of periodic benefit payments.

..   Upon inception of the benefit, 100% of your Contract Value must be
    allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts.
..   You cannot allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to or from
    the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account (see description below)
    if you elect this benefit. A summary description of the AST Investment
    Grade Bond Portfolio appears within the prospectus section entitled "What
    Are The Investment Objectives and Policies of The Portfolios?". Upon the
    initial transfer of your Contract Value into the AST Investment Grade Bond
    Portfolio, we will send a prospectus for that Portfolio to you, along with
    your confirmation statement. In addition, you can find a copy of the AST
    Investment Grade Bond Portfolio prospectus by going to
    www.prudentialannuities.com.

..   Transfers to and from the elected Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade
    Bond Portfolio Sub-account triggered by the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
    asset transfer program will not count toward the maximum number of free
    transfers allowable under an Annuity.

..   We currently limit the Sub-accounts to which you may allocate Contract
    Value if you participate in this benefit. (See "See What Investment Options
    Can I Choose" in the prospectus on page 23 for PL SPAO 3, page page 21 for
    PLNJ SPAO 3, page 22 for Flexelite, page 23 for PL SPAO Plus 3, and page 21
    for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3). Moreover, if you are invested in prohibited
    investment options and seek to elect the benefit, we will ask you to
    reallocate to permitted investment options as a prerequisite to electing
    the benefit.
..   The maximum charge for Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is 1.50% annually of
    the greater of Contract Value and the Protected Withdrawal Value (PWV). The
    current charge is 0.75% annually of the greater of Contract Value and the
    Protected Withdrawal Value. We deduct this fee at the end of each benefit
    quarter, where each such quarter is part of a year that begins on the
    effective date of the benefit or an anniversary thereafter. Thus, on each
    such quarter-end (or the next Business Day, if the quarter-end is not a
    Business Day), we deduct 0.1875% of the greater of the prior day's Contract
    Value or the prior day's Protected Withdrawal Value at the end of the
    quarter. We deduct the fee pro rata from each of your Sub-accounts
    including the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account. Since this
    fee is based on the greater of the Contract Value or the Protected
    Withdrawal Value, the fee for Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus may be greater
    than it would have been, had it been based on the Contract Value alone. If
    the fee to be deducted exceeds the Contract Value at the benefit quarter,
    we will charge the remainder of the Contract Value for the benefit and
    continue the benefit as described above.


 Election of and Designations under the Program
 For Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, there must be either a single Owner who is
 the same as the Annuitant, or if the Annuity is entity owned, there must be a
 single natural person Annuitant. In either case, the Annuitant must be at
 least 45 years old.



 Any change of the Annuitant under the Annuity will result in cancellation of
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. Similarly, any change of Owner will result in
 cancellation of Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, except if (a) the new Owner has
 the same taxpayer identification number as the previous owner, (b) ownership
 is transferred from a custodian to the Annuitant, or vice versa or
 (c) ownership is transferred from one entity to another entity that is
 satisfactory to us.


 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus can be elected at the time that you purchase
 your Annuity or after the Contract Date, subject to our eligibility rules and
 restrictions. If you elect Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and terminate it, you
 can re-elect it, subject to our current rules. Additionally, if you currently
 own an Annuity with a living benefit, you may terminate your existing benefit
 rider and elect the benefits offered in this supplement, subject to our
 current rules (See "Termination of Existing Benefits and Election of New
 Benefits" below). Please note that if you terminate a living benefit and elect
 a new living benefit, you lose the guarantees that you had accumulated under
 your existing benefit and will begin the new guarantees under the new benefit
 you elect based on your Contract Value as of the date the new benefit becomes
 active. We reserve the right to waive, change and/or further limit the
 election frequency in the future.


 Termination of the Program

 You may terminate Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus at any time by notifying us.
 If you terminate the benefit, any guarantee provided by the benefit will
 terminate as of the date the termination is effective, and certain
 restrictions on re-election will apply as described herein. The benefit
 automatically terminates: (i) upon your termination of the benefit, (ii) upon
 your surrender of the Annuity, (iii) upon your election to begin receiving
 annuity payments (although if you have elected to receive the Annual Income
 Amount in the form of Annuity payments, we will continue to pay the Annual
 Income Amount), (iv) upon our receipt of due proof of the death of the
 Annuitant, (v) if both the Contract Value and Annual Income Amount equal zero,
 or (vi) if you cease to meet our requirements as described in "Election of and
 Designations under the Program".


 Upon termination of Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus other than upon the death of
 the Annuitant, we impose any accrued fee for the benefit (i.e., the fee for
 the pro-rated portion of the year since the fee was last assessed), and
 thereafter we cease deducting the charge for the benefit. With regard to your
 investment allocations, upon termination we will: (i) leave intact amounts
 that are held in the variable investment options, and (ii) transfer all
 amounts held in the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account to your
 variable investment options, based on your existing allocation instructions or
 (in the absence of such existing instructions) pro rata (i.e. in the same
 proportion as the current balances in your variable investment options).

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 If a surviving spouse elects to continue the Annuity, the Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus benefit terminates. The spouse may elect the benefit subject
 to the restrictions discussed above.


 How Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Transfers Contract Value Between Your
 Permitted Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-Account
 As indicated above, we limit the Sub-accounts to which you may allocate
 Contract Value if you elect Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. For purposes of
 this benefit, we refer to those permitted Sub-accounts as the "Permitted
 Sub-accounts". An integral part of Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is the
 pre-determined mathematical formula used to transfer Contract Value between
 the Permitted Sub-Accounts and a specified bond fund within the Advanced
 Series Trust (the "AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-Account"). The AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account is available only with this benefit, and thus you may
 not allocate Purchase Payments to or make transfers to or from the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. The mathematical formula monitors your
 Contract Value daily and, if dictated by the formula, systematically transfers
 amounts between the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen and the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. The formula is set forth below.

 Speaking generally, the formula, which is applied each Business Day, operates
 as follows. The formula starts by identifying an income basis for that day and
 then multiplies that figure by 5%, to produce a projected (i.e., hypothetical)
 income amount. Note that 5% is used in the formula, irrespective of the
 Annuitant's attained age. Then it produces an estimate of the total amount
 targeted in our allocation model, based on the projected income amount and
 factors set forth in the formula. In the formula, we refer to that value as
 the "Target Value" or "L". If you have already made a withdrawal, your
 projected income amount (and thus your Target Value) would take into account
 any automatic step-up, any subsequent Purchase Payments, and any excess
 withdrawals. Next, the formula subtracts from the Target Value the amount held
 within the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account on that day, and divides that
 difference by the amount held within the Permitted Sub-accounts. That ratio,
 which essentially isolates the amount of your Target Value that is not offset
 by amounts held within the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, is called
 the "Target Ratio" or "r". If, on each of three consecutive Business Days, the
 Target Ratio is greater than 83% but less than or equal to 84.5%, the formula
 will, on such third Business Day, make a transfer from the Permitted
 Sub-accounts in which you are invested (subject to the 90% cap discussed
 below) to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. Once a transfer is made,
 the three consecutive Business Days begin again. If, however, on any Business
 Day, the Target Ratio is above 84.5%, it will make a transfer from the
 Permitted Sub-accounts (subject to the 90% cap) to the AST Investment Grade
 Bond Sub-account. If the Target Ratio falls below 78% on any Business Day,
 then a transfer from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account to the
 Permitted Sub-accounts will occur.

 The formula will not execute a transfer to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account that results in more than 90% of your Contract Value being
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account ("90% cap"). Thus, on
 any Business Day, if the formula would require a transfer to the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account that would result in more than 90% of the
 Contract Value being allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account,
 only the amount that results in exactly 90% of the Contract Value being
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account will be transferred.
 Additionally, future transfers into the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account
 will not be made (regardless of the performance of the AST Investment Grade
 Bond Sub-account and the Permitted Sub-accounts) at least until there is first
 a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. Once this
 transfer occurs out of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, future
 amounts may be transferred to or from the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account if dictated by the formula (subject to the 90% cap). At no time
 will the formula make a transfer to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account
 that results in greater than 90% of your Contract Value being allocated to the
 AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. However, it is possible that, due to
 the investment performance of your allocations in the AST Investment Grade
 Bond Sub-account and your allocations in the Permitted Sub-accounts you have
 selected, your Contract Value could be more than 90% invested in the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

 If you make additional purchase payments to your Contract while the 90% cap is
 in effect, the formula will not transfer any of such additional purchase
 payments to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account at least until there is
 first a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, regardless
 of how much of your Contract Value is in the Permitted Sub-accounts. This
 means that there could be scenarios under which, because of the additional
 purchase payments you make, less than 90% of your entire Contract Value is
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, and the formula will
 still not transfer any of your Contract Value to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account (at least until there is first a transfer out of the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account). For example,
   .   March 19, 2009 - a transfer is made to the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account that results in the 90% cap being met and now $90,000 is
       allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and $10,000 is
       allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts.

   .   March 20, 2009 - you make an additional purchase payment of $10,000. No
       transfers have been made from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account
       to the Permitted Sub-accounts since the cap went into effect on
       March 19, 2009.
   .   On March 20, 2009 (and at least until first a transfer is made out of
       the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account under the formula) - the
       $10,000 payment is allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts and on this
       date you have 82% in the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and 18%
       in the Permitted Sub-accounts (such that $20,000 is allocated to the
       Permitted Sub-accounts and $90,000 to the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account).

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   .   Once there is a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account (of any amount), the formula will operate as described
       above, meaning that the formula could transfer amounts to or from the
       AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account if dictated by the formula
       (subject to the 90% cap).


 Under the operation of the formula, the 90% cap may come into existence and be
 removed multiple times while you participate in the benefit. We will continue
 to monitor your Contract Value daily and, if dictated by the formula,
 systematically transfer amounts between the Permitted Sub-accounts you have
 chosen and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account as dictated by the
 mathematical formula.

 As you can glean from the formula, poor or flat investment performance of your
 Contract Value may result in a transfer of a portion of your Contract Value in
 the Permitted Sub-accounts to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account
 because such poor investment performance will tend to increase the Target
 Ratio. Because the amount allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account and the amount allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts each is a
 variable in the formula, the investment performance of each affects whether a
 transfer occurs for your Contract. In deciding how much to transfer, we use
 another formula, which essentially seeks to re-balance amounts held in the
 Permitted Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account so that
 the Target Ratio meets a target, which currently is equal to 80%. Once you
 elect Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, the values we use to compare to the
 Target Ratio will be fixed. For newly-issued Annuities that elect Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and existing Annuities that elect Highest Daily Lifetime
 7 Plus in the future, however, we reserve the right to change such values.

 Additionally, on each monthly Contract Anniversary (if the monthly Contract
 Anniversary does not fall on a Business Day, the next Business Day will be
 used), following all of the above described daily calculations, a transfer may
 be made from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account to the Permitted
 Sub-accounts. Any such transfer will be based on your existing allocation
 instructions or (in the absence of such existing instructions) pro rata (i.e.
 in the same proportion as the current balances in your variable investment
 options). This transfer will automatically occur provided that the Target
 Ratio, as described above, would be less than 83% after the transfer. The
 formula will not execute a transfer if the Target Ratio after this transfer
 would occur would be greater than or equal to 83%.


 The amount of the transfer will be equal to the lesser of:


 a) The total value of all your Contract Value in the AST Investment Grade Bond
    Sub-account, or
 b) An amount equal to 5% of your total Contract Value.

 While you are not notified when your Contract reaches a transfer trigger under
 the formula, you will receive a confirmation statement indicating the transfer
 of a portion of your Contract Value either to or from the AST Investment Grade
 Bond Sub-account. The formula by which the transfer operates is designed
 primarily to mitigate some of the financial risks that we incur in providing
 the guarantee under Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus.

 Depending on the results of the calculations of the mathematical formula, we
 may, on any Business Day:

   .   Not make any transfer between the Permitted Sub-accounts and the AST
       Investment Grade Bond Sub-account; or

   .   If a portion of your Contract Value was previously allocated to the AST
       Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, transfer all or a portion of those
       amounts to the Permitted Sub-accounts, based on your existing allocation
       instructions or (in the absence of such existing instructions) pro rata
       (i.e., in the same proportion as the current balances in your variable
       investment options); or
   .   Transfer a portion of your Contract Value in the Permitted Sub-accounts
       pro rata to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

 The amount and timing of transfers to and from the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account pursuant to the mathematical formula depends upon a number of
 factors unique to YOUR Contract (and is not necessarily directly correlated
 with the securities markets, bond markets, or interest rates, in general)
 including:
   .   The difference between your Contract Value and your Protected Withdrawal
       Value;

   .   How long you have owned Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus or Spousal Highest
       Daily Lifetime 7 Plus;
   .   The performance of the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen;
   .   The performance of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account;
   .   The amount allocated to each of the Permitted Sub-accounts you have
       chosen;
   .   The amount allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account;

   .   Additional Purchase Payments, if any, you make to your Contract; and
   .   Withdrawals, if any, you take from your Contract (withdrawals are taken
       pro rata from your Contract Value).

 At any given time, some, most or none of your Contract Value will be allocated
 to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, as dictated by the formula.

 The more of your Contract Value allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account under the formula, the greater the impact of the performance of
 that Sub-account in determining whether (and how much) your Contract Value is
 transferred back to


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 the Permitted Sub-accounts. Further, it is possible under the formula that, if
 a significant portion of your Contract Value is allocated to the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and that Sub-account has good performance
 but the performance of your Permitted Sub-accounts is negative, that the
 formula might transfer your Contract Value to the Permitted Sub-accounts.
 Similarly, the more you have allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts, the
 greater the impact of the performance of those Permitted Sub-accounts will
 have on any transfer to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

 If you make additional Purchase Payments to your Contract, they will be
 allocated according to your allocation instructions. Once they are allocated
 to your Contract, they will also be subject to the mathematical formula
 described above and therefore may be transferred to the AST Investment Grade
 Bond Portfolio, if dictated by the formula.

 Any Contract Value in the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account will not be
 available to participate in the investment experience of the Permitted
 Sub-accounts regardless of whether there is a subsequent Sub-account decline
 or recovery until it is transferred out of the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account.

 TRANSFER FORMULA FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS INCOME BENEFIT AND SPOUSAL
                  HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS INCOME BENEFIT

  TRANSFERS OF CONTRACT VALUE BETWEEN YOUR PERMITTED SUB-ACCOUNTS AND THE AST
                       INVESTMENT GRADE BOND SUB-ACCOUNT

 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS REFERENCED IN THE CALCULATION FORMULAS:
   .   C\\u\\ - the upper target is established on the effective date of the
       Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
       benefit (the "Effective Date") and is not changed for the life of the
       guarantee. Currently, it is 83%.

   .   Cu\\s\\ - the secondary upper target is established on the effective
       date of the Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime
       7 Plus benefit (the "Effective Date") and is not changed for the life of
       the guarantee. Currently it is 84.5%

   .   C\\t\\ - the target is established on the Effective Date and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 80%.

   .   C\\l\\ - the lower target is established on the Effective Date and is
       not changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 78%.

   .   L - the target value as of the current Business Day.

   .   r - the target ratio.

   .   a - factors used in calculating the target value. These factors are
       established on the Effective Date and are not changed for the life of
       the guarantee.

   .   V\\V\\ - the total value of all Permitted Sub-accounts in the Contract.

   .   V\\F\\ the total value of all elected Fixed Rate Options in the Contract.

   .   B - the total value of the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio
       Sub-account.

   .   P - Income Basis. Prior to the first Lifetime Withdrawal, the Income
       Basis is equal to the Protected Withdrawal Value calculated as if the
       first Lifetime Withdrawal were taken on the date of calculation. After
       the first Lifetime Withdrawal, the Income Basis is equal to the greater
       of (1) the Protected Withdrawal Value on the date of the first Lifetime
       Withdrawal, increased for additional Purchase Payments, including the
       amount of any associated Credits, and adjusted proportionally for excess
       withdrawals*, and (2) any highest daily Contract Value occurring on or
       after the date of the first Lifetime Withdrawal and prior to or
       including the date of this calculation increased for additional Purchase
       Payments including the amount of any associated Credits, and adjusted
       for Lifetime Withdrawals.

   .   T - the amount of a transfer into or out of the AST Investment Grade
       Bond Portfolio Sub-account.

   .   T\\M\\ - the amount of a monthly transfer out of the AST Investment
       Grade Bond Portfolio.

 *  Note: Lifetime Withdrawals of less than or equal to the Annual Income
    Amount do not reduce the Income Basis.


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                               Daily Calculations

 TARGET VALUE CALCULATION:
 On each Business Day, a target value (L) is calculated, according to the
 following formula. If the variable Contract Value (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\) is equal
 to zero, no calculation is necessary.




                               
                            L    =    0.05 * P * a




 Transfer Calculation:
 The following formula, which is set on the Benefit Effective Date and is not
 changed for the life of the guarantee, determines when a transfer is required:




                              
              Target Ratio r    =    (L - B) / (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\).




       .   If on the third consecutive Business Day r (greater than) Cu and r
           (less or =) Cu\\s\\ or if on any day r (greater than) Cu\\s\\, and
           subject to the 90% cap rule described above, assets in the Permitted
           Sub-accounts are transferred to the AST Investment Grade Bond
           Portfolio Sub-account.

       .   If r (less than) Cl, and there are currently assets in the AST
           Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account (B (greater than) 0),
           assets in the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account are
           transferred to the Permitted Sub-accounts according to most recent
           allocation instructions.

 The following formula, which is set on the Benefit Effective Date and is not
 changed for the life of the guarantee, determines the transfer amount:




                                                                    
 T    =    Min(MAX(0, (0.90 * (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\ + B)) - B),                    Money is transferred from the Permitted
           [L - B - (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\) * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))               Sub-accounts and Fixed Rate Options to the AST
                                                                              Investment Grade Bond Sub-account

 T    =    {Min(B, - [L - B - (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\) * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))}    Money is transferred from the AST Investment
                                                                              Grade Bond Sub-account to the Permitted Sub-
                                                                              accounts




 Monthly Calculation
 On each monthly anniversary of the Contract Contract Date and following the
 daily Transfer Calculation above, the following formula determines if a
 transfer from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account to the Permitted
 Sub-Accounts will occur:

 If, after the daily Transfer Calculation is performed,

 {Min (B, .05 * (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\ + B))} (less than) (Cu * (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\) - L
 + B) / (1 - C\\u\\), then




                                        
 T\\M\\    =    {Min (B, .05 * (Vv + VF + B))}    Money is transferred from the AST Investment
                                                  Grade Bond Sub-account to the Permitted
                                                  Sub-accounts.



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                     "a" Factors for Liability Calculations
              (in Years and Months since Benefit Effective Date)*





      Months
Years   1      2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    10    11     12
- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
                                     
  1   15.34  15.31 15.27 15.23 15.20 15.16 15.13 15.09 15.05 15.02 14.98 14.95
  2   14.91  14.87 14.84 14.80 14.76 14.73 14.69 14.66 14.62 14.58 14.55 14.51
  3   14.47  14.44 14.40 14.36 14.33 14.29 14.26 14.22 14.18 14.15 14.11 14.07
  4   14.04  14.00 13.96 13.93 13.89 13.85 13.82 13.78 13.74 13.71 13.67 13.63
  5   13.60  13.56 13.52 13.48 13.45 13.41 13.37 13.34 13.30 13.26 13.23 13.19
  6   13.15  13.12 13.08 13.04 13.00 12.97 12.93 12.89 12.86 12.82 12.78 12.75
  7   12.71  12.67 12.63 12.60 12.56 12.52 12.49 12.45 12.41 12.38 12.34 12.30
  8   12.26  12.23 12.19 12.15 12.12 12.08 12.04 12.01 11.97 11.93 11.90 11.86
  9   11.82  11.78 11.75 11.71 11.67 11.64 11.60 11.56 11.53 11.49 11.45 11.42
 10   11.38  11.34 11.31 11.27 11.23 11.20 11.16 11.12 11.09 11.05 11.01 10.98
 11   10.94  10.90 10.87 10.83 10.79 10.76 10.72 10.69 10.65 10.61 10.58 10.54
 12   10.50  10.47 10.43 10.40 10.36 10.32 10.29 10.25 10.21 10.18 10.14 10.11
 13   10.07  10.04 10.00  9.96  9.93  9.89  9.86  9.82  9.79  9.75  9.71  9.68
 14    9.64   9.61  9.57  9.54  9.50  9.47  9.43  9.40  9.36  9.33  9.29  9.26
 15    9.22   9.19  9.15  9.12  9.08  9.05  9.02  8.98  8.95  8.91  8.88  8.84
 16    8.81   8.77  8.74  8.71  8.67  8.64  8.60  8.57  8.54  8.50  8.47  8.44
 17    8.40   8.37  8.34  8.30  8.27  8.24  8.20  8.17  8.14  8.10  8.07  8.04
 18    8.00   7.97  7.94  7.91  7.88  7.84  7.81  7.78  7.75  7.71  7.68  7.65
 19    7.62   7.59  7.55  7.52  7.49  7.46  7.43  7.40  7.37  7.33  7.30  7.27
 20    7.24   7.21  7.18  7.15  7.12  7.09  7.06  7.03  7.00  6.97  6.94  6.91
 21    6.88   6.85  6.82  6.79  6.76  6.73  6.70  6.67  6.64  6.61  6.58  6.55
 22    6.52   6.50  6.47  6.44  6.41  6.38  6.36  6.33  6.30  6.27  6.24  6.22
 23    6.19   6.16  6.13  6.11  6.08  6.05  6.03  6.00  5.97  5.94  5.92  5.89
 24    5.86   5.84  5.81  5.79  5.76  5.74  5.71  5.69  5.66  5.63  5.61  5.58
 25    5.56   5.53  5.51  5.48  5.46  5.44  5.41  5.39  5.36  5.34  5.32  5.29
 26    5.27   5.24  5.22  5.20  5.18  5.15  5.13  5.11  5.08  5.06  5.04  5.01
 27    4.99   4.97  4.95  4.93  4.91  4.88  4.86  4.84  4.82  4.80  4.78  4.75
 28    4.73   4.71  4.69  4.67  4.65  4.63  4.61  4.59  4.57  4.55  4.53  4.51
 29    4.49   4.47  4.45  4.43  4.41  4.39  4.37  4.35  4.33  4.32  4.30  4.28
 30    4.26   4.24  4.22  4.20  4.18  4.17  4.15  4.13  4.11  4.09  4.07  4.06**




 *  The values set forth in this table are applied to all ages.
 ** In all subsequent years and months thereafter, the Contract factor is 4.06


 Additional Tax Considerations

 If you purchase a Contract as an investment vehicle for "qualified"
 investments, including an IRA, SEP-IRA, Tax Sheltered Annuity (or 403(b)) or
 employer plan under Code Section 401(a), the required minimum distribution
 rules under the Code provide that you begin receiving periodic amounts from
 your Contract beginning after age 70 1/2. For a Tax Sheltered Annuity or a
 401(a) plan for which the participant is not a greater than five (5) percent
 owner of the employer, this required beginning date can generally be deferred
 to retirement, if later. Roth IRAs are not subject to these rules during the
 owner's lifetime. The amount required under the Code may exceed the Annual
 Income Amount, which will cause us to increase the Annual Income Amount in any
 Contract Year that required minimum distributions due from your Contract are
 greater than such amounts. In addition, the amount and duration of payments
 under the Contract payment and death benefit provisions may be adjusted so
 that the payments do not trigger any penalty or excise taxes due to tax
 considerations such as required minimum distribution provisions under the tax
 law. Please note, however, that any withdrawal (except the Non-Lifetime
 Withdrawal) you take prior to the Tenth Anniversary, even if withdrawn to
 satisfy required minimum distribution rules, will cause you to lose the
 ability to receive the Return of Principal Guarantee and the guaranteed amount
 described above under "Key Feature - Protected Withdrawal Value".

 As indicated, withdrawals made while this benefit is in effect will be
 treated, for tax purposes, in the same way as any other withdrawals under the
 Contract. Please see the Tax Considerations section of the prospectus for a
 detailed discussion of the tax treatment of withdrawals. We do not address
 each potential tax scenario that could arise with respect to this benefit
 here. However, we do note that if you participate in Highest Daily Lifetime 7
 Plus through a non-qualified contract, as with all withdrawals, once all
 Purchase Payments are returned under the Annuity, all subsequent withdrawal
 amounts will be taxed as ordinary income.


 SPOUSAL HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME 7 PLUS/SM/ INCOME BENEFIT (SHD7 Plus)/SM/
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is the spousal version of Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus. This version is only being offered in those jurisdictions
 where we have received regulatory approval and will be offered subsequently in
 other jurisdictions when we

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 receive regulatory approval in those jurisdictions. Currently, if you elect
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and subsequently terminate the benefit,
 you may elect another lifetime withdrawal benefit, subject to our current
 rules. See "Termination of Existing Benefits and Election of New Benefits".
 Please note that if you terminate Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and
 elect another benefit, you lose the guarantees that you had accumulated under
 your existing benefit and will begin the new guarantees under the new benefit
 you elect based on your Contract Value as of the date the new benefit becomes
 active. Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus must be elected based on two
 Designated Lives, as described below. The youngest Designated Life must be at
 least 50 years old and the oldest Designated Life must be at least 55 years
 old when the benefit is elected. Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is not
 available if you elect any other optional benefit. As long as your Spousal
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit is in effect, you must allocate your
 Contract Value in accordance with the then permitted and available investment
 option(s) with this program. For a more detailed description of permitted
 investment options, see the "Investment Options" section below and in your
 prospectus on page 23 for PL SPAO 3, page 21 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 22 for
 Flexelite, page 23 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3, and page 21 for PLNJ SPAO Plus3 3.

 We offer a benefit that guarantees until the later death of two natural
 persons who are each other's spouses at the time of election of the benefit
 and at the first death of one of them (the "Designated Lives", and each, a
 "Designated Life") the ability to withdraw an annual amount (the "Annual
 Income Amount") equal to a percentage of an initial principal value (the
 "Protected Withdrawal Value") regardless of the impact of Sub-account
 performance on the Contract Value, subject to our program rules regarding the
 timing and amount of withdrawals. You are guaranteed to be able to withdraw
 the Annual Income Amount for the lives of the Designated Lives ("Lifetime
 Withdrawals") provided you have not made "excess withdrawals" that have
 resulted in your Contract Value being reduced to zero. We also permit a
 one-time Non-Lifetime Withdrawal from your Contract prior to taking Lifetime
 Withdrawals under the benefit. The benefit may be appropriate if you intend to
 make periodic withdrawals from your Contract, wish to ensure that Sub-account
 performance will not affect your ability to receive annual payments, and wish
 either spouse to be able to continue the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
 benefit after the death of the first spouse. You are not required to make
 withdrawals as part of the program - the guarantees are not lost if you
 withdraw less than the maximum allowable amount each year under the rules of
 the benefit. As discussed below, we require that you participate in our asset
 transfer program in order to participate in Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7
 Plus.

 Although you are guaranteed the ability to withdraw your Annual Income Amount
 for life even if your Contract Value falls to zero, if you take an excess
 withdrawal that brings your Contract Value to zero, it is possible that your
 Annual Income Amount could also fall to zero. In that scenario, no further
 amount would be payable under Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus.


 Key Feature - Protected Withdrawal Value

 The Protected Withdrawal Value is used to calculate the initial Annual Income
 Amount. The Protected Withdrawal Value is separate from your Contract Value
 and not available as cash or a lump sum. On the effective date of the benefit,
 the Protected Withdrawal Value is equal to your Contract Value. On each
 Business Day thereafter until the date of your first Lifetime Withdrawal
 (excluding any Non-Lifetime Withdrawal discussed below), the Protected
 Withdrawal Value is equal to the "Periodic Value" described in the next
 paragraph.

 The "Periodic Value" initially is equal to the Contract Value on the effective
 date of the benefit. On each Business Day thereafter until the first Lifetime
 Withdrawal, we recalculate the Periodic Value. We stop determining the
 Periodic Value upon your first Lifetime Withdrawal after the effective date of
 the benefit. On each Business Day (the "Current Business Day"), the Periodic
 Value is equal to the greater of:

 (1)the Periodic Value for the immediately preceding business day (the "Prior
    Business Day") appreciated at the daily equivalent of 7% annually during
    the calendar day(s) between the Prior Business Day and the Current Business
    Day (i.e., one day for successive Business Days, but more than one calendar
    day for Business Days that are separated by weekends and/or holidays), plus
    the amount of any adjusted Purchase Payment made on the Current Business
    Day (the Periodic Value is proportionally reduced for any Non-Lifetime
    Withdrawal); and
 (2)the Contract Value.


 If you have not made a Lifetime Withdrawal on or before the 10/th/, 20/th/, or
 25/th/ Anniversary of the effective date of the benefit, your Periodic Value
 on the 10/th/, 20/th/, or 25/th/ Anniversary of the benefit effective date is
 equal to the greater of:

 (1)the Periodic Value described above or,
 (2)the sum of (a), (b) and (c) (proportionally reduced for any Non-Lifetime
    Withdrawal):


       (a)200% (on the 10/th/ anniversary), 400% (on the 20/th/ anniversary) or
          600% (on the 25/th/ anniversary) of the Contract Value on the
          effective date of the benefit;

       (b)200% (on the 10/th/ anniversary), 400% (on the 20/th/ anniversary) or
          600% (on the 25/th/ anniversary) of all adjusted Purchase Payments
          made within one year following the effective date of the benefit; and
       (c)All adjusted Purchase Payments made after one year following the
          effective date of the benefit.

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 On and after the date of your first Lifetime Withdrawal, your Protected
 Withdrawal Value is increased by the amount of any subsequent Purchase
 Payments, is reduced by withdrawals, including your first Lifetime Withdrawal
 (as described below), and may be increased if you qualify for a step-up (as
 described below).



 Return of Principal Guarantee

 If you have not made a Lifetime Withdrawal before the Tenth Anniversary, we
 will increase your Contract Value on that Tenth Anniversary (or the next
 Business Day, if that anniversary is not a Business Day), if the requirements
 set forth in this paragraph are met. On the Tenth Anniversary, we add:

 a) your Contract Value on the day that you elected Spousal Highest Daily
    Lifetime 7 Plus proportionally reduced for any Non-Lifetime Withdrawal; and

 b) the sum of each Purchase Payment proportionally reduced for any subsequent
    Non-Lifetime Withdrawal (including the amount of any associated Credits)
    you made during the one-year period after you elected the benefit.


 If the sum of (a) and (b) is greater than your Contract Value on the Tenth
 Anniversary, we increase your Contract Value to equal the sum of (a) and (b),
 by contributing funds from our general account. If the sum of (a) and (b) is
 less than or equal to your Contract Value on the Tenth Anniversary, we make no
 such adjustment. The amount that we add to your Contract Value under this
 provision will be allocated to each of your variable investment options
 (including the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account used with this benefit),
 in the same proportion that each such Sub-account bears to your total Contract
 Value, immediately before the application of the amount. Any such amount will
 not be considered a Purchase Payment when calculating your Protected
 Withdrawal Value, your death benefit, or the amount of any optional benefit
 that you may have selected, and therefore will have no direct impact on any
 such values at the time we add this amount. Because the amount is added to
 your Contract Value, it will also be subject to each charge under your
 Contract based on Contract Value. This potential addition to Contract Value is
 available only if you have elected Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus and
 if you meet the conditions set forth in this paragraph. Thus, if you take a
 withdrawal, including a required minimum distribution, (other than a
 Non-Lifetime Withdrawal) prior to the Tenth Anniversary, you are not eligible
 to receive the Return of Principal Guarantee. The Return of Principal
 Guarantee is referred to as the Guaranteed Minimum Contract Value Credit in
 the benefit rider.


 Key Feature - Annual Income Amount under the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7
 Plus Benefit

 The Annual Income Amount is equal to a specified percentage of the Protected
 Withdrawal Value. The percentage initially depends on the age of the youngest
 Designated Life on the date of the first Lifetime Withdrawal after election of
 the benefit. The percentages are: 4% for ages 50 - less than 59 1/2, 5% for
 ages 50 1/2-79, 6% for ages 80 to 84, 7% for ages 85 to 89, and 8% for ages 90
 and older. We use the age of the youngest Designated Life even if that
 Designated Life is no longer a participant under the Contract due to death or
 divorce. Under the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit, if your
 cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals in an Contract Year are less than or equal to
 the Annual Income Amount, they will not reduce your Annual Income Amount in
 subsequent Contract Years, but any such withdrawals will reduce the Annual
 Income Amount on a dollar-for-dollar basis in that Contract Year. If your
 cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals in an Contract Year are in excess of the
 Annual Income Amount for any Contract Year ("Excess Income"), your Annual
 Income Amount in subsequent years will be reduced (except with regard to
 required minimum distributions for this Contract that comply with our rules)
 by the result of the ratio of the Excess Income to the Contract Value
 immediately prior to such withdrawal (see examples of this calculation below).
 Reductions are based on the actual amount of the withdrawal, including any
 CDSC that may apply. Lifetime Withdrawals of any amount up to and including
 the Annual Income Amount will reduce the Protected Withdrawal Value by the
 amount of the withdrawal. Withdrawals of Excess Income will reduce the
 Protected Withdrawal Value by the same ratio as the reduction to the Annual
 Income Amount.

 Note that if your withdrawal of the Annual Income Amount in a given Contract
 Year exceeds the applicable free withdrawal amount under the Contract (but is
 not considered Excess Income), we will not impose any CDSC on the amount of
 that withdrawal.


 You may use the Systematic Withdrawal program to make withdrawals of the
 Annual Income Amount. Any systematic withdrawal will be deemed a Lifetime
 Withdrawal under this benefit.

 Any Purchase Payment that you make subsequent to the election of Spousal
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus will (i) increase the then-existing Annual
 Income Amount by an amount equal to a percentage of the Purchase Payment
 (including the amount of any associated Credit) based on the age of the
 younger Annuitant at the time of the first Lifetime Withdrawal (the
 percentages are: 4% for ages 50 - less than 59 1/2, 5% for ages 59 1/2-79, 6%
 for ages 80-84, 7% for ages 85-89, and 8% for ages 90 and older), and
 (ii) increase the Protected Withdrawal Value by the amount of the Purchase
 Payment (including the amount of any associated Credit).



 Highest Daily Auto Step-Up

 An automatic step-up feature ("Highest Daily Auto Step-Up") is part of this
 benefit. As detailed in this paragraph, the Highest Daily Auto Step-Up feature
 can result in a larger Annual Income Amount subsequent to your first Lifetime
 Withdrawal. The Highest Daily Step-Up starting with the anniversary of the
 Contract Date of the Contract (the "Contract Anniversary") immediately


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 after your first Lifetime Withdrawal under the benefit. Specifically, upon the
 first such Contract Anniversary, we identify the Contract Value on each
 Business Day within the immediately preceding Contract Year after your first
 Lifetime Withdrawal. Having identified the highest daily value (after all
 daily values have been adjusted for subsequent purchase payments and
 withdrawals), we then multiply that value by a percentage that varies based on
 the age of the youngest Designated Life on the Contract Anniversary as of
 which the step-up would occur. The percentages are 4% for ages 50 - less than
 59 1/2, 5% for ages 59 1/2-79, 6% for ages 80-84, 7% for ages 85-89, and 8%
 for ages 90 and older. If that value exceeds the existing Annual Income
 Amount, we replace the existing amount with the new, higher amount. Otherwise,
 we leave the existing Annual Income Amount intact. The Contract Value on the
 Contract Anniversary is considered the last daily step-up value of the
 Contract Year. In later years (i.e., after the first Contract Anniversary
 after the first Lifetime Withdrawal), we determine whether an automatic
 step-up should occur on each Contract Anniversary by performing a similar
 examination of the Contract Values that occurred on Business Days during the
 year. At the time that we increase your Annual Income Amount, we also increase
 your Protected Withdrawal Value to equal the highest daily value upon which
 your step-up was based only if that results in an increase to the Protected
 Withdrawal Value. Your Protected Withdrawal Value will never be decreased as a
 result of an income step-up. If, on the date that we implement a Highest Daily
 Auto Step-Up to your Annual Income Amount, the charge for Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus has changed for new purchasers, you may be subject to
 the new charge at the time of such step-up. Prior to increasing your charge
 for Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus upon a step-up, we would notify you,
 and give you the opportunity to cancel the automatic step-up feature. If you
 receive notice of a proposed step-up and accompanying fee increase, you should
 carefully evaluate whether the amount of the step-up justifies the increased
 fee to which you will be subject.


 If you establish a Systematic Withdrawal program, we will not automatically
 increase the withdrawal amount when there is an increase to the Annual Income
 Amount.


 The Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus program does not affect your ability
 to make withdrawals under your Annuity, or limit your ability to request
 withdrawals that exceed the Annual Income Amount. Under Spousal Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus, if your cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals in an Contract Year
 are less than or equal to the Annual Income Amount, they will not reduce your
 Annual Income Amount in subsequent Contract Years, but any such withdrawals
 will reduce the Annual Income Amount on a dollar-for-dollar basis in that
 Contract Year.

 If, cumulatively, you withdraw an amount less than the Annual Income Amount in
 any Contract Year, you cannot carry-over the unused portion of the Annual
 Income Amount to subsequent Contract Years.

 Because each of the Protected Withdrawal Value and Annual Income Amount is
 determined in a way that is not solely related to Contract Value, it is
 possible for the Contract Value to fall to zero, even though the Annual Income
 Amount remains.


 Examples of dollar-for-dollar and proportional reductions, and the Highest
 Daily Auto Step-Up are set forth below. The values shown here are purely
 hypothetical, and do not reflect the charges for the Spousal Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus benefit or any other fees and charges. Assume the following
 for all three examples:

   .   The Contract Date is December 1, 2008

   .   The Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit is elected on March 5,
       2009
   .   The younger Designated Life was 70 years old when he/she elected the
       Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.

 Example of dollar-for-dollar reductions

 On November 24, 2009, the Protected Withdrawal Value is $120,000, resulting in
 an Annual Income Amount of $6,000 (since the youngest designated life is
 between the ages of 59 1/2 and 79 at the time of the first Lifetime
 Withdrawal, the Annual Income Amount is 5% of the Protected Withdrawal Value,
 in this case 5% of $120,000). Assuming $2,500 is withdrawn from the Contract
 on this date, the remaining Annual Income Amount for that Contract Year (up to
 and including December 1, 2009) is $3,500. This is the result of a
 dollar-for-dollar reduction of the Annual Income Amount ($6,000 less $2,500 =
 $3,500).


 Example of proportional reductions

 Continuing the previous example, assume an additional withdrawal of $5,000
 occurs on November 27, 2009 and the Contract Value at the time and immediately
 prior to this withdrawal is $118,000. The first $3,500 of this withdrawal
 reduces the Annual Income Amount for that Contract Year to $0. The remaining
 withdrawal amount of $1,500 - reduces the Annual Income Amount in future
 Contract Years on a proportional basis based on the ratio of the excess
 withdrawal to the Contract Value immediately prior to the excess withdrawal.
 (Note that if there were other withdrawals in that Contract Year, each would
 result in another proportional reduction to the Annual Income Amount).


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 Here is the calculation:



                                                               
  Contract Value before Lifetime Withdrawal                       $118,000.00
  Less amount of "non" excess withdrawal                          $  3,500.00
  Contract Value immediately before excess withdrawal of $1,500   $114,500.00
  Excess withdrawal amount                                        $  1,500.00
  Divided by Contract Value immediately before excess withdrawal  $114,500.00
  Ratio                                                                  1.31%
  Annual Income Amount                                            $  6,000.00
  Less ratio of 1.31%                                             $     78.60
  Annual Income Amount for future Contract Years                  $  5,921.40



 Example of highest daily auto step-up

 On each Contract Anniversary date, the Annual Income Amount is stepped-up if
 the appropriate percentage (based on the youngest designated life's age on the
 Contract Anniversary) of the highest daily value since your first Lifetime
 Withdrawal (or last Contract Anniversary in subsequent years), adjusted for
 withdrawals and additional Purchase Payments, is higher than the Annual Income
 Amount, adjusted for excess withdrawals and additional Purchase Payments
 (including the amount of any associated Credits).

 Continuing the same example as above, the Annual Income Amount for this
 Contract Year is $6,000. However, the excess withdrawal on November 27 reduces
 the amount to $5,921.40 for future years (see above). For the next Contract
 Year, the Annual Income Amount will be stepped up if 5% (since the youngest
 Designated Life is younger than 80 on the date of the potential step-up) of
 the highest daily Contract Value adjusted for withdrawals and Purchase
 Payments (including credits), is higher than $5921.40. Here are the
 calculations for determining the daily values. Only the November 25 value is
 being adjusted for excess withdrawals as the November 30 and December 1
 Business Days occur after the excess withdrawal on November 26.





                                    Highest Daily Value
                                      (adjusted with          Adjusted Annual
                                  withdrawal and Purchase Income Amount (5% of the
Date*              Contract Value       Payments)**         Highest Daily Value)
- -----              -------------- ----------------------- ------------------------
                                                 
November 25, 2009   $119,000.00      $      119,000.00           $5,950.00
November 26, 2009                     Thanksgiving Day
November 27, 2009   $113,000.00      $      113,986.95           $5,699.35
November 30, 2009   $113,000.00      $      113,986.95           $5,699.35
December 01, 2009   $119,000.00      $      119,000.00           $5,950.00




 *  In this example, the Contract Anniversary date is December 1. The Valuation
    Dates are every day following the first Lifetime Withdrawal. In subsequent
    Contract Years Valuation Dates will be every day following the Contract
    Anniversary. The Contract Anniversary Date of December 1 is considered the
    final Valuation Date for the Contract Year.
 ** In this example, the first daily value after the first Lifetime Withdrawal
    is $119,000 on November 25, resulting in an adjusted Annual Income Amount
    of $5,950.00. This amount is adjusted on November 27 to reflect the $5,000
    withdrawal. The calculations for the adjustments are:
   .   The Contract Value of $119,000 on November 25 is first reduced
       dollar-for-dollar by $3,500 ($3,500 is the remaining Annual Income
       Amount for the Contract Year), resulting in an adjusted Contract Value
       of $115,500 before the excess withdrawal.
   .   This amount ($115,500) is further reduced by 1.31% (this is the ratio in
       the above example which is the excess withdrawal divided by the Contract
       Value immediately preceding the excess withdrawal) resulting in a
       Highest Daily Value of $113,986.95.
   .   The adjusted Annual Income Amount is carried forward to the next
       Valuation Date of November 30. At this time, we compare this amount to
       5% of the Contract Value on November 30. Since the November 27 adjusted
       Annual Income Amount of $5,699.35 is higher than $5,650.00 (5% of
       $113,000), we continue to carry $5,699.35 forward to the next and final
       Valuation Date of December 1. The Contract Value on December 1 is
       $119,000 and 5% of this amount is $5,950. Since this is higher than
       $5,699.35, the adjusted Annual Income Amount is reset to $5,950.00.

 In this example, 5% of the December 1 value results in the highest amount of
 $5,950.00. Since this amount is higher than the current year's Annual Income
 Amount of $5,921.40 adjusted for excess withdrawals, the Annual Income Amount
 for the next Contract Year, starting on December 2, 2009 and continuing
 through December 1, 2010, will be stepped-up to $5,950.00.


 Non-Lifetime Withdrawal Feature

 You may take a one-time non-lifetime withdrawal ("Non-Lifetime Withdrawal")
 under Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus. It is an optional feature of the
 benefit that you can only elect at the time of your first withdrawal. The
 amount of the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal cannot be more than the amount that
 would cause the Contract to be taken below the minimum Surrender Value after a
 withdrawal for your Contract (See "How Can I Access My Money?" in the
 prospectus on page 92 for PL SPAO 3, page 84 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 92 for
 Flexelite, page 94 for PL SPAO Plus 3 and page 87 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3). This
 Non-Lifetime Withdrawal will not establish your initial Annual Income Amount
 and the Periodic Value described above will continue to be calculated.
 However, the total amount of the withdrawal will proportionally reduce all
 guarantees associated with the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.
 You must tell us if your withdrawal is intended to be the Non-Lifetime
 Withdrawal and not the first lifetime withdrawal under the Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit. If you don't elect the Non-Lifetime


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 Withdrawal, the first Lifetime withdrawal you make will be the first Lifetime
 Withdrawal that establishes your Protected Withdrawal Value and Annual Income
 Amount. Once you elect the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal or Lifetime Withdrawals, no
 additional Non-Lifetime withdrawals may be taken.

 The Non-Lifetime Withdrawal will proportionally reduce the Protected
 Withdrawal Value, the Return of Principal guarantee and the Periodic Value
 guarantees on the tenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the
 benefit effective date, described above, by the percentage the total
 withdrawal amount (including any applicable CDSC) represents of the then
 current Contract Value immediately prior to the time of the withdrawal.

 If you are participating in a Systematic Withdrawal program, the first
 withdrawal under the program cannot be classified as the Non-Lifetime
 Withdrawal. The first partial withdrawal in payment of any third party
 investment advisory service from your Contract also cannot be classified as
 the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal.


 Example - Non-Lifetime Withdrawal (proportional reduction)
 This example is purely hypothetical and does not reflect the charges for the
 benefit or any other fees and charges. It is intended to illustrate the
 proportional reduction of the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal under this benefit.

 Assume the following:

   .   The Contract Date is December 1, 2008

   .   The Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit is elected on March 5,
       2009

   .   The Contract Value at benefit election was $105,000

   .   The younger Designated Life was 70 years old when he/she elected the
       Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.
   .   No previous withdrawals have been taken under the Spousal Highest Daily
       Lifetime 7 Plus benefit.


 On May 2, 2009, the Protected Withdrawal Value is $125,000, the 10/th/ benefit
 year minimum Periodic Value guarantee is $210,000, the 10/th/ benefit year
 Return of Principal guarantee is $105,000, the 20/th/ benefit year minimum
 Periodic Value guarantee is $420,000, the 25/th/ benefit year minimum Periodic
 Value guarantee is $630,000 and the Contract Value is $120,000. Assuming
 $15,000 is withdrawn from the Contract on May 2, 2009 and is designated as a
 Non-Lifetime Withdrawal, all guarantees associated with the Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit will be reduced by the ratio the total
 withdrawal amount represents of the Contract Value just prior to the
 withdrawal being taken.


 Here is the calculation:



                                                              
      Withdrawal Amount divided by                               $ 15,000
      Contract Value before withdrawal                           $120,000
      Equals ratio                                                   12.5%
      All guarantees will be reduced by the above ratio (12.5%)
      Protected Withdrawal Value                                 $109,375
      10/th/ benefit year Return of Principal                    $ 91,875
      10/th/ benefit year Minimum Periodic Value                 $183,750
      20/th/ benefit year Minimum Periodic Value                 $367,500
      25/th/ benefit year Minimum Periodic Value                 $551,250



 Required Minimum Distributions

 Withdrawals that exceed the Annual Income Amount, but which you are required
 to take as a required minimum distribution for this Contract, will not reduce
 the Annual Income Amount for future years. No additional Annual Income Amounts
 will be available in a Contract Year due to required minimum distributions
 unless the required minimum distribution amount is greater than the Annual
 Income Amount. Any withdrawal you take that exceeds the Annual Income Amount
 in Contract Years that your required minimum distribution amount is not
 greater than the Annual Income Amount will be treated as an Excess Withdrawal
 under the benefit. If the required minimum distribution (as calculated by us
 for your Contract and not previously withdrawn in the current calendar year)
 is greater than the Annual Income Amount, an amount equal to the remaining
 Annual Income Amount plus the difference between the required minimum
 distribution amount not previously withdrawn in the current calendar year and
 the Annual Income Amount will be available in the current Contract Year
 without it being considered an excess withdrawal.

 Example - Required Minimum Distributions
 The following example is purely hypothetical and is intended to illustrate a
 scenario in which the required minimum distribution amount in a given Contract
 Year is greater than the Annual Income Amount. In the event that a required
 minimum distribution is calculated in a calendar year that crosses more than
 one Contract Year and you choose to satisfy the entire required minimum
 distribution for that calendar year in the next Contract Year, the
 distribution taken in the next Contract Year will reduce your Annual Income
 Amount in that Contract Year on a dollar for dollar basis. If the required
 minimum distribution not taken in the prior Contract Year is greater than the
 Annual Income Amount as guaranteed by the benefit in the current Contract
 Year, the total required minimum distribution amount may be taken without
 being treated as an excess withdrawal.


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 Annual Income Amount = $5,000
 Remaining Annual Income Amount = $3,000
 Required Minimum Distribution = $6,000


 The amount you may withdraw in the current Contract Year without it being
 treated as an Excess Withdrawal is $4,000. ($3,000 + ($6,000 - $5,000) =
 $4,000).

 If the $4,000 withdrawal is taken, the remaining Annual Income Amount will be
 zero and the remaining required minimum distribution amount of $2,000 may be
 taken in the subsequent Contract Year (when your Annual Income Amount is reset
 to $5,000) without proportionally reducing all guarantees associated with the
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit as described above.

 The amount you may withdraw in the subsequent Contract Year if you choose not
 to satisfy the RMD in the current Contract Year (assuming the Annual Income
 Amount in the subsequent Contract Year is $5000.00), without being treated as
 an Excess Withdrawal is $6000.00. This withdrawal must comply with all IRS
 guidelines in order to satisfy the Required Minimum Distribution for the
 current calendar year.

 Benefits Under Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus
..   To the extent that your Contract Value was reduced to zero as a result of
    cumulative Lifetime Withdrawals in a Contract Year that are equal to or
    less than the Annual Income Amount or as a result of the fee that we assess
    for Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, and amounts are still payable
    under Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus, we will make an additional
    payment, if any, for that Contract Year equal to the remaining Annual
    Income Amount for the Contract Year. Thus, in that scenario, the remaining
    Annual Income Amount would be payable even though your Contract Value was
    reduced to zero. In subsequent Contract Years we make payments that equal
    the Annual Income Amount as described in this section. We will make
    payments until the death of the first of the Designated Lives to die, and
    will continue to make payments until the death of the second Designated
    Life as long as the Designated Lives were spouses at the time of the first
    death. To the extent that cumulative withdrawals in the Contract Year that
    reduced your Contract Value to zero are more than the Annual Income Amount,
    the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit terminates, and no
    additional payments will be made. However, if a withdrawal in the latter
    scenario was taken to satisfy a required minimum distribution under the
    Contract the benefit will not terminate, and we will continue to pay the
    Annual Income Amount in subsequent Contract Years until the death of the
    second Designated Life provided the Designated lives were spouses at the
    death of the first Designated Life.
..   If Contract payments are to begin under the terms of your Contract, or if
    you decide to begin receiving Contract payments and there is an Annual
    Income Amount due in subsequent Contract Years, you can elect one of the
    following two options:

       (1)apply your Contract Value to any Contract option available; or
       (2)request that, as of the date Contract payments are to begin, we make
          Contract payments each year equal to the Annual Income Amount. We
          will make payments until the first of the Designated Lives to die,
          and will continue to make payments until the death of the second
          Designated Life as long as the Designated Lives were spouses at the
          time of the first death. If, due to death of a Designated Life or
          divorce prior to annuitization, only a single Designated Life
          remains, then Contract payments will be made as a life contract for
          the lifetime of the Designated Life. We must receive your request in
          a form acceptable to us at our office.

 In the absence of an election when mandatory annuity payments are to begin, we
 will make annual annuity payments as a joint and survivor or single (as
 applicable) life fixed annuity with ten payments certain, by applying the
 greater of the annuity rates then currently available or the annuity rates
 guaranteed in your Contract. The amount that will be applied to provide such
 Contract payments will be the greater of:

       (1)the present value of the future Annual Income Amount payments. Such
          present value will be calculated using the greater of the joint and
          survivor or single (as applicable) life fixed annuity rates then
          currently available or the joint and survivor or single (as
          applicable) life fixed annuity rates guaranteed in your Contract; and
       (2)the Contract Value.

..   If no Lifetime Withdrawal was ever taken, we will calculate the Annual
    Income Amount as if you made your first Lifetime Withdrawal on the date the
    annuity payments are to begin.
..   Please note that payments that we make under this benefit after the
    Contract Anniversary coinciding with or next following the older of the
    owner or Annuitant's 95/th/ birthday, will be treated as annuity payments.


 Other Important Considerations

..   Withdrawals under the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit are
    subject to all of the terms and conditions of the Contract, including any
    applicable CDSC for the Non-Lifetime Withdrawal as well as withdrawals that
    exceed the Annual Income Amount.
..   Withdrawals made while the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Benefit is
    in effect will be treated, for tax purposes, in the same way as any other
    withdrawals under the Contract.


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..   You can make withdrawals from your Contract while your Contract Value is
    greater than zero without purchasing the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7
    Plus benefit. The Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit provides a
    guarantee that if your Contract Value is reduced to zero (subject to
    program rules regarding the timing and amount of withdrawals), you will be
    able to receive your Annual Income Amount in the form of periodic benefit
    payments.
..   Upon inception of the benefit, 100% of your Contract Value must be
    allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts.
..   You cannot allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to or from
    the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account (as described below) if
    you elect this benefit. A summary description of the AST Investment Grade
    Bond Portfolio appears within the prospectus section entitled "What Are The
    Investment Objectives and Policies of The Portfolios?". Upon the initial
    transfer of your Contract Value into the AST Investment Grade Bond
    Portfolio, we will send a prospectus for that Portfolio to you, along with
    your confirmation statement. In addition, you can find a copy of the AST
    Investment Grade Bond Portfolio prospectus by going to
    www.prudentialannuities.com.
..   You can make withdrawals from your Contract without purchasing the Spousal
    Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus benefit. The Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7
    Plus benefit provides a guarantee that if your Contract Value declines due
    to Sub-account performance, you will be able to receive your Annual Income
    Amount in the form of periodic benefit payments.
..   Transfers to and from the elected Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade
    Bond Portfolio Sub-account triggered by the Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime
    7 Plus asset transfer program will not count toward the maximum number of
    free transfers allowable under a Contract.
..   We currently limit the Sub-accounts to in which you may allocate Contract
    Value if you participate in this benefit (see "What Investment Options Can
    I Choose?" below and in the prospectus on page 23 for PL SPAO 3, page 21
    for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 22 for Flexelite, page 23 for PL SPAO Plus 3 and page
    21 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3). Moreover, if you are invested in prohibited
    investment options and seek to elect the benefit, we will ask you to
    reallocate to permitted investment options as a prerequisite to electing
    the benefit.
..   The maximum fee for Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is 1.50% annually
    of the greater of Contract Value and the Protected Withdrawal Value. The
    current fee for Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus is 0.90% annually of
    the greater of Contract Value and the Protected Withdrawal Value. We deduct
    this fee at the end of each benefit quarter, where each such quarter is
    part of a year that begins on the effective date of the benefit or an
    anniversary thereafter. Thus, on each such quarter-end (or the next
    Business Day, if the quarter-end is not a Business Day), we deduct 0.225%
    of the greater of the prior day's Contract Value, or the prior day's
    Protected Withdrawal Value at the end of the quarter. We deduct the fee pro
    rata from each of your Sub-accounts including the AST Investment Grade Bond
    Sub-account. Since this fee is based on the greater of the Contract Value
    and the Protected Withdrawal Value, the fee for Spousal Highest Daily
    Lifetime 7 Plus may be greater than it would have been, had it been based
    on the Contract Value alone. If the fee to be deducted exceeds the Contract
    Value, we will reduce the Contract Value to zero, and continue the benefit
    as described above.


 Election of and Designations under the Program
 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus can only be elected based on two
 Designated Lives. Designated Lives must be natural persons who are each
 other's spouses at the time of election of the program and at the death of the
 first of the Designated Lives to die. Currently, Spousal Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus only may be elected where the Owner, Annuitant, and
 Beneficiary designations are as follows:

..   One Contract Owner, where the Annuitant and the Owner are the same person
    and the beneficiary is the Owner's spouse. The youngest Owner/Annuitant and
    the beneficiary must be at least 50 years old and the oldest must be at
    least 55 years old at the time of election; or
..   Co-Contract Owners, where the Owners are each other's spouses. The
    beneficiary designation must be the surviving spouse, or the spouses named
    equally. One of the owners must be the Annuitant. The youngest Owner must
    be at least 50 years old and the oldest owner must be at least 55 years old
    at the time of election; or
..   One Contract Owner, where the Owner is a custodial account established to
    hold retirement assets for the benefit of the Annuitant pursuant to the
    provisions of Section 408(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (or any successor
    Code section thereto) ("Custodial Account"), the beneficiary is the
    Custodial Account, and the spouse of the Annuitant is the Contingent
    Annuitant. The youngest of the Annuitant and the Contingent Annuitant must
    be at least 50 years old and the oldest must be at least 55 years old at
    the time of election.


 We do not permit a change of Owner under this benefit, except as follows:


 (a)if one Owner dies and the surviving spousal Owner assumes the Contract, or
 (b)if the Contract initially is co-owned, but thereafter the Owner who is not
    the Annuitant is removed as Owner. We permit changes of beneficiary under
    this benefit. If the Designated Lives divorce, the Spousal Highest Daily
    Lifetime 7 Plus benefit may not be divided as part of the divorce
    settlement or judgment. Nor may the divorcing spouse who retains ownership
    of the Contract appoint a new Designated Life upon re-marriage.

 Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus can be elected at the time that you
 purchase your Contract or after the Contract Date, subject to our eligibility
 rules and restrictions. See "Termination of Existing Benefits and Election of
 New Benefits" below for information pertaining to elections, terminations and
 re-election of benefits. We reserve the right to waive, change and/or further
 limit the election frequency in the future.


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 Termination of the Program

 You may terminate the benefit at any time by notifying us. If you terminate
 the benefit, any guarantee provided by the benefit will terminate as of the
 date the termination is effective, and certain restrictions on re-election may
 apply (as described above). The benefit automatically terminates: (i) if upon
 the death of the first Designated Life, the surviving Designated Life opts to
 take the death benefit under the Contract (thus, the benefit does not
 terminate solely because of the death of the first Designated Life), (ii) upon
 the death of the second Designated Life, (iii) upon your termination of the
 benefit, (iv) upon your surrender of the Contract, (v) upon your election to
 begin receiving annuity payments (although if you have elected to take
 contract payments in the form of the Annual Income Amount, we will continue to
 pay the Annual Income Amount), (vi) if both the Contract Value and Annual
 Income Amount equal zero, or (vii) if you cease to meet our requirements as
 described in "Election of and Designations under the Program".

 Upon termination of Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus other than upon
 death of a Designated Life, we impose any accrued fee for the benefit (i.e.,
 the fee for the pro-rated portion of the year since the fee was last
 assessed), and thereafter we cease deducting the charge for the benefit. With
 regard to your investment allocations, upon termination we will: (i) leave
 intact amounts that are held in the variable investment options, and
 (ii) transfer all amounts held in the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio
 Sub-account to your variable investment options based on your existing
 allocation instructions or (in the absence of such instructions) or (in the
 absence of such instructions pro rata) (i.e. in the same proportion as the
 current balances in your variable investment options).

 How Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Transfers Contract Value between
 Your Permitted Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account

 See "How Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Transfers Contract Value Between Your
 Permitted Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account" on page
 13 of this Supplement for information regarding this component of the benefit.


 Additional Tax Considerations

 If you purchase an Contract as an investment vehicle for "qualified"
 investments, including an IRA, SEP-IRA, Tax Sheltered Annuity (or 403(b)) or
 employer plan under Code Section 401(a), the required minimum distribution
 rules under the Code provide that you begin receiving periodic amounts from
 your Contract beginning after age 70 1/2. For a Tax Sheltered Annuity or a
 401(a) plan for which the participant is not a greater than five (5) percent
 owner of the employer, this required beginning date can generally be deferred
 to retirement, if later. Roth IRAs are not subject to these rules during the
 owner's lifetime. The amount required under the Code may exceed the Annual
 Income Amount, which will cause us to increase the Annual Income Amount in any
 Contract Year that required minimum distributions due from your Contract are
 greater than such amounts. In addition, the amount and duration of payments
 under the Contract payment and death benefit provisions may be adjusted so
 that the payments do not trigger any penalty or excise taxes due to tax
 considerations such as required minimum distribution provisions under the tax
 law. Please note, however, that any withdrawal (except the Non-Lifetime
 Withdrawal) you take prior to the Tenth Anniversary, even if withdrawn to
 satisfy required minimum distribution rules, will cause you to lose the
 ability to receive the Return of Principal Guarantee and the guaranteed amount
 described above under "KEY FEATURE - Protected Withdrawal Value".

 As indicated, withdrawals made while this benefit is in effect will be
 treated, for tax purposes, in the same way as any other withdrawals under the
 Contract. Please see the Tax Considerations section of the prospectus for a
 detailed discussion of the tax treatment of withdrawals. We do not address
 each potential tax scenario that could arise with respect to this benefit
 here. However, we do note that if you participate in Spousal Highest Daily
 Lifetime 7 Plus through a non-qualified contract, as with all withdrawals,
 once all Purchase Payments are returned under the Contract, all subsequent
 withdrawal amounts will be taxed as ordinary income.

 The following is added on page 53 for PL SPAO 3, page 47 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page
 53 for Flexelite, page 55 for PL SPAO Plus 3 and page 49 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3
 in your prospectus under "Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits":


 Termination of Existing Benefits and Election of New Benefits

 If you currently own a Contract with an optional living benefit that is
 terminable, you may terminate the benefit rider and elect one of the benefits
 described in this supplement, subject to availability of the benefit at that
 time and our then current rules. There is currently no waiting period to elect
 any living benefit once a living benefit is terminated provided that the
 benefit being elected is available for election post-issue. We reserve the
 right to waive, change and/or further limit availability and election
 frequencies in the future. Check with your financial professional regarding
 the availability of re-electing or electing a benefit and any waiting period.
 The benefit you re-elect or elect may be more expensive than the benefit you
 are terminating. Note that once you terminate an existing benefit, you lose
 the guarantees that you had accumulated under your existing benefit and will
 begin the new guarantees under the new benefit you elect based on your
 Contract Value as of the date the new benefit becomes active. You should
 carefully consider whether terminating your existing benefit and electing a
 new benefit is appropriate for you.


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                              INVESTMENT OPTIONS

 We add the following information to your prospectus on page 23 of PL SPAO 3,
 page 21 of PLNJ SPAO 3, page 22 of Flexelite, page 23 of PL SPAO Plus 3 and
 page 21 of PLNJ SPAO Plus 3 under "What Investment Options Can I Choose?".

..   We add the following immediately before the chart setting forth the
    Investment Objectives and Policies of each Portfolio:

 Certain optional living benefits (e.g., Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus) employ
 a pre-determined mathematical formula, under which money is transferred
 between your chosen variable sub-accounts and a bond portfolio (e.g., the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Portfolio). You should be aware that the operation of
 the mathematical formula could impact the expenses and performance of the
 variable sub-accounts used with the optional living benefits (the "Permitted
 Funds"). Specifically, because transfers to and from the Permitted Funds can
 be frequent and the amount transferred can vary, the Permitted Funds could
 experience the following effects, among others: (a) they may be compelled to
 hold a larger portion of assets in highly liquid securities than they
 otherwise would, which could diminish performance if the highly liquid
 securities under perform other securities (e.g., equities) that otherwise
 would have been held (b) they may experience higher portfolio turnover, which
 generally will increase the Permitted Funds' expenses and (c) if they are
 compelled by the mathematical formula to sell securities that are
 thinly-traded, such sales could have a significant impact on the price of such
 securities. Please consult the prospectus for the Permitted Fund for complete
 information about these effects.


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 NEW OPTIONAL FEATURE FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME FIVE INCOME BENEFIT, HIGHEST
 DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME BENEFIT AND SPOUSAL HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN
                                INCOME BENEFIT

 1. In the section entitled "What Are the Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits--Highest
 Daily Lifetime Five/(SM)/ Income Benefit", we add and amend certain
 information contained in that section of the prospectus (page 62 for PL SPAO
 3, page 56 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 63 for Flexelite, page 64 for PL SPAO Plus 3
 and page 58 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3) as follows:

 OPTIONAL FEATURE FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME FIVE INCOME BENEFIT
 If you currently own a Contract and have elected, as of the date of this
 Supplement, the Highest Daily Lifetime Five Income Benefit, you can elect this
 feature which utilizes a new asset transfer formula. The new formula is
 described below and will replace the "Transfer Calculation" portion of the
 asset transfer formula currently used in connection with your benefit on a
 prospective basis. This election may only be made once and may not be revoked
 once elected. The new asset transfer formula is added to Appendix C in your
 prospectus and is provided below.

 Under the new formula, the formula will not execute a transfer to the Benefit
 Fixed Rate Account that results in more than 90% of your Contract Value being
 allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account ("90% cap" or "90% cap rule").
 Thus, on any Business Day, if the formula would require a transfer into the
 Benefit Fixed Rate Account that would result in more than 90% of the Contract
 Value being allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, only the amount that
 results in exactly 90% of the Contract Value being allocated to the Benefit
 Fixed Rate Account will be transferred. Additionally, future transfers into
 the Benefit Fixed Rate Account will not be made (regardless of the performance
 of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account and the Permitted Sub-accounts) at least
 until there is first a transfer out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. Once
 this transfer occurs out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, future amounts may
 be transferred to or from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account if dictated by the
 formula (subject to the 90% cap). At no time will the formula make a transfer
 to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account that results in greater than 90% of your
 Contract Value being allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. However, it
 is possible that, due to the investment performance of your allocations in the
 Benefit Fixed Rate Account and your allocations in the Permitted Sub-accounts
 you have selected, your Contract Value could be more than 90% invested in the
 Benefit Fixed Rate Account.

 If you make additional purchase payments to your Contract while the 90% cap is
 in effect, the formula will not transfer any of such additional purchase
 payments to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account at least until there is first a
 transfer out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, regardless of how much of your
 Contract Value is in the Permitted Sub-accounts. This means that there could
 be scenarios under which, because of the additional purchase payments you
 make, less than 90% of your entire Contract Value is allocated to the Benefit
 Fixed Rate Account, and the formula will still not transfer any of your
 Contract Value to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account (at least until there is
 first a transfer out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account). For example:

   .   March 19, 2009 - a transfer is made to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account
       that results in the 90% cap being met and now $90,000 is allocated to
       the Benefit Fixed Rate Account and $10,000 is allocated to the Permitted
       Sub-accounts.
   .   March 20, 2009 - you make an additional purchase payment of $10,000. No
       transfers have been made from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account to the
       Permitted Sub-accounts since the cap went into effect on March 19, 2009.
   .   As of March 20, 2009 (and at least until first a transfer is made out of
       the Benefit Fixed Rate Account under the formula) - the $10,000 payment
       is allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts and now you have 82% in the
       Benefit Fixed Rate Account and 18% in the Permitted Sub-accounts (such
       that $20,000 is allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts and $90,000 is
       allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account).
   .   Once there is a transfer out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account (of any
       amount), the formula will operate as described above, meaning that the
       formula could transfer amounts to or from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account
       if dictated by the formula (subject to the 90% cap).


 Under the operation of the formula, the 90% cap may come into existence and
 may be removed multiple times while you participate in the benefit. We will
 continue to monitor your Contract Value daily and, if dictated by the formula,
 systematically transfer amounts between the Permitted Sub-accounts you have
 chosen and the Benefit Fixed Rate Account as dictated by the mathematical
 formula. Once you elect this feature, the new transfer formula described above
 and set forth below will be the asset transfer formula for your Contract.

 In the event that more than ninety percent (90%) of your Contract Value is
 allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account and you have elected this feature,
 up to ten percent (10%) of your Contract Value currently allocated to the
 Benefit Fixed Rate Account will be transferred to your Permitted Sub-accounts,
 such that after the transfer, 90% of your Contract Value on the date of the
 transfer is in the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. The transfer to the Permitted
 Sub-accounts will be based on your existing allocation instructions or (in the
 absence of such existing instructions) pro rata (i.e., in the same proportion
 as the current balances in your variable investment options). Amounts taken
 out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account will be withdrawn for this purpose on a
 last-in, first-out basis (an amount renewed into a new guarantee period under
 the Benefit Fixed Rate Account will be deemed a new investment for purposes of
 this last-in, first- our rule). It is possible that additional transfers might
 occur after this initial transfer if dictated by the formula. The amounts of
 such additional transfer(s) will vary.


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 Once the 90% cap rule is met, future transfers into the Benefit Fixed Rate
 Account will not be made (regardless of the performance of the Benefit Fixed
 Rate Account and the Permitted Sub-accounts) at least until there is first a
 transfer out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. Once this transfer occurs out
 of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, future amounts may be transferred to or
 from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account if dictated by the formula (subject to the
 90% cap).


 Important Considerations When Electing this Feature:

   .   At any given time, some, most or none of your Contract Value may be
       allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account.
   .   Please be aware that because of the way the new 90% cap asset transfer
       formula operates, it is possible that more than or less than 90% of your
       Contract Value may be allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account.

   .   Because the charge for Highest Daily Lifetime Five is assessed against
       the average daily net assets of the Sub-accounts, that charge will be
       assessed against all assets transferred into the Permitted Sub-accounts.

   .   If this feature is elected, any Contract Value transferred to the
       Permitted Sub-accounts is subject to the investment performance of those
       Sub-accounts. Your Contract Value can go up or down depending of the
       performance of the Permitted Sub-accounts you select.

 ASSET TRANSFER FORMULA FOR CONTRACTS WITH 90% CAP FEATURE

 The "Terms and Definitions referenced in this Calculation Formula" and the
 "Target Value Calculation" provided below remain unchanged and are included
 herein for ease of reference.



 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS REFERENCED IN THE CALCULATION FORMULA:
   .   C\\u\\ - the upper target is established on the effective date of the
       Highest Daily Lifetime Five benefit (the "Effective Date") and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 83%.

   .   C\\t\\ - the target is established on the Effective Date and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 80%.

   .   C\\l\\ - the lower target is established on the Effective Date and is
       not changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 77%.


   .   L - the target value as of the current Business Day.


   .   r - the target ratio.


   .   a - the factors used in calculating the target value. These factors are
       established on the Effective Date and are not changed for the life of
       the guarantee. The factors that we use currently are derived from the
       a2000 Individual Annuity Mortality Table with an assumed interest rate
       of 3%. Each number in the table "a" factors (which appears on page C-3
       in your prospectus) represents a factor, which when multiplied by the
       Highest Daily Annual Income Amount, projects our total liability for the
       purpose of asset transfers under the guarantee.


   .   Q - age based factors used in calculating the target value. These
       factors are established on the Effective Date and are not changed for
       the life of the guarantee. The factor is currently set equal to 1.


   .   V - the total value of all Permitted Sub-accounts in the Contract.


   .   F - the total value of all Benefit Fixed Rate Account allocations.


   .   I - the income value prior to the first withdrawal. The income value is
       equal to what the Highest Daily Annual Income Amount would be if the
       first withdrawal were taken on the date of calculation. After the first
       withdrawal the income value equals the greater of the Highest Daily
       Annual Income Amount, the quarterly step-up amount times the annual
       income percentage, and the Contract Value times the annual income
       percentage.


   .   T - the amount of a transfer into or out of the Benefit Fixed Rate
       Account.


   .   I% - annual income amount percentage. This factor is established on the
       Effective Date and is not changed for the life of the guarantee.
       Currently, this percentage is equal to 5%.


 TARGET VALUE CALCULATION:

 On each Business Day, a target value (L) is calculated, according to the
 following formula. If the variable Contract Value (V) is equal to zero, no
 calculation is necessary.




                                 
                              L    =    I * Q * a




 If you elect this feature, the following replaces the "Transfer Calculation"
 section in Appendix C (on page C-1 of your prospectus).


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 Transfer Calculation:

 The following formula, which is set on the effective date of this feature and
 is not changed for the life of the guarantee, determines when a transfer is
 required: On the effective date of this feature (and only on the effective
 date of this feature), the following asset transfer calculation is performed
 to determine the amount of Contract Value allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate
 Account:



                                          
             If (F /(V + F)    (greater than)    .90) then
             T                 =                 F - (V + F) * .90


 If T is greater than $0 as described above, then no additional transfer
 calculations are performed on the effective date.


 On each Business Day thereafter (including the effective date of this feature
 provided F/(V + F) (less than)=.90), the following asset transfer calculation
 is performed



                                      
                      Target Ratio r    =    (L - F) / V.


       .   If r (greater than) C\\u\\, assets in the Permitted Sub-accounts are
           transferred to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account (subject to the 90%
           cap rule described above).

       .   If r (less than) C\\l\\ and there are currently assets in the
           Benefit Fixed Rate Account (F (greater than) 0), assets in the
           Benefit Fixed Rate Account are transferred to the Permitted
           Sub-accounts.


 The following formula, which is set on the effective date of this feature and
 is not changed for the life of the guarantee, determines the transfer amount:



                                                  
 T    =    Min(MAX(0, (0.90 * (V + F)) - F),                Money is transferred from the elected Permitted
           [L - F - V * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))             Sub-accounts to Benefit Fixed Rate Account

 T    =    Min(F, - [L - F - V * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))    Money is transferred from the Benefit Fixed Rate
                                                            Account to the Permitted Sub-accounts.



 2. In the section entitled "What Are Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits" - Highest
 Daily Lifetime Seven/(SM)/ Income Benefit and Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime
 Seven/(SM)/ Income Benefit", we add and amend certain information contained in
 that section of the prospectus (pages 69 and 75 of PL SPAO 3, pages 63 and 69
 of PLNJ SPAO 3, pages 69 and 76 of Flexelite, pages 70 and 77 of PL SPAO Plus
 3 and pages 65 and 71 of PLNJ SPOA Plus 3 as follows:

 OPTIONAL FEATURE FOR HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME BENEFIT AND SPOUSAL
 HIGHEST DAILY LIFETIME SEVEN INCOME BENEFIT
 If you currently own a Contract and have elected, as of the date of this
 Supplement, the Highest Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit or Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit, you can elect this feature which utilizes
 a new asset transfer formula. The new formula is described below and will
 replace the "Transfer Calculation" portion of the asset transfer formula
 currently used in connection with your benefit on a prospective basis. This
 election may only be made once and may not be revoked once elected. The new
 asset transfer formula is added to Appendix D in your prospectus (on page D-1)
 and is provided below.

 Under the new formula, the formula will not execute a transfer to the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account that results in more than 90% of your
 Contract Value being allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account
 ("90% cap" or "90% cap rule"). Thus, on any Business Day, if the formula would
 require a transfer to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account that would
 result in more than 90% of the Contract Value being allocated to the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, only the amount that results in exactly 90%
 of the Contract Value being allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account will be transferred. Additionally, future transfers into the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account will not be made (regardless of the
 performance of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and the Permitted
 Sub-accounts) at least until there is first a transfer out of the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. Once this transfer occurs out of the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, future amounts may be transferred to or
 from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account if dictated by the formula
 (subject to the 90% cap). At no time will the formula make a transfer to the
 AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account that results in greater than 90% of your
 Contract Value being allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.
 However, it is possible that, due to the investment performance of your
 allocations in the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and your allocations
 in the Permitted Sub-accounts you have selected, your Contract Value could be
 more than 90% invested in the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

 If you make additional purchase payments to your Contract while the 90% cap is
 in effect, the formula will not transfer any of such additional purchase
 payments to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account at least until there is
 first a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, regardless
 of how much of your Contract Value is in the Permitted Sub-accounts. This means


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 that there could be scenarios under which, because of the additional purchase
 payments you make, less than 90% of your entire Contract Value is allocated to
 the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, and the formula will still not
 transfer any of your Contract Value to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account (at least until there is first a transfer out of the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account). For example,

   .   March 19, 2009 - a transfer is made that results in the 90% cap being
       met and now $90,000 is allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account and $10,000 is allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts.
   .   March 20, 2009 - you make an additional purchase payment of $10,000. No
       transfers have been made from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account
       to the Permitted Sub-accounts since the cap went into effect on
       March 19, 2009.
   .   As of March 20, 2009 (and at least until first a transfer is made out of
       the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account under the formula) - the
       $10,000 payment is allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts and now you
       have 82% in the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and 18% in the
       Permitted Sub-accounts (such that $20,000 is allocated to the Permitted
       Sub-accounts and $90,000 is allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account).
   .   Once there is a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account (of any amount), the formula will operate as described
       above, meaning that the formula could transfer amounts to or from the
       AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account if dictated by the formula
       (subject to the 90% cap).


 Under the operation of the formula, the 90% cap may come into existence and
 may be removed multiple times while you participate in the benefit. We will
 continue to monitor your Contract Value daily and, if dictated by the formula,
 systematically transfer amounts between the Permitted Sub-accounts you have
 chosen and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account as dictated by the
 mathematical formula. Once you elect this feature, the new transfer formula
 described above and set forth below will be the asset transfer formula for
 your Contract.

 In the event that more than ninety percent (90%) of your Contract Value is
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and you have elected
 this feature, up to ten percent (10%) of your Contract Value currently
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account will be transferred to
 your Permitted Sub-accounts, such that after the transfer, 90% of your
 Contract Value on the date of the transfer is in the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account. The transfer to the Permitted Sub-accounts will be based on your
 existing allocation instructions or (in the absence of such existing
 instructions) pro rata (i.e., in the same proportion as the current balances
 in your variable investment options). It is possible that additional transfers
 might occur after this initial transfer if dictated by the formula. The
 amounts of such additional transfer(s) will vary. If on the date this feature
 is elected 100% of your Contract Value is allocated to the AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account, a transfer of an amount equal to 10% of your Contract
 Value will be made to your Permitted Sub-accounts. It is possible that an
 additional transfer to the Permitted Sub-accounts could occur the following
 Business Day, and in some instances (based on the formula) this additional
 transfer could be large.

 Once the 90% cap rule is met, future transfers into the AST Investment Grade
 Bond Sub-account will not be made (regardless of the performance of the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and the Permitted Sub-accounts) at least
 until there is first a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account. Once this transfer occurs out of the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account, future amounts may be transferred to or from the AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account if dictated by the formula (subject to the 90% cap).

 Important Considerations When Electing this Feature:
   .   At any given time, some, most or none of your Contract Value may be
       allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.
   .   Please be aware that because of the way the new 90% cap asset transfer
       formula operates, it is possible that more than or less than 90% of your
       Contract Value may be allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
       Sub-account.
   .   If this feature is elected, any Contract Value transferred to the
       Permitted Sub-accounts is subject to the investment performance of those
       Sub-accounts. Your Contract Value can go up or down depending of the
       performance of the Permitted Sub-accounts you select.

 ASSET TRANSFER FORMULA FOR CONTRACTS WITH 90% CAP FEATURE

 Transfer Calculation if you elected Highest Daily Lifetime Seven or Spousal
 Highest Daily Lifetime Seven on or after July 21, 2008:


 The "Terms and Definitions referenced in the Calculation Formula" and the
 "Target Value Calculation" provided below remain unchanged and are included
 herein for ease of reference.


 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS REFERENCED IN THE CALCULATION FORMULA:
   .   C\\u\\ - the upper target is established on the effective date of the
       Highest Daily Lifetime Seven benefit (the "Effective Date") and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 83%.

   .   C\\t\\ - the target is established on the Effective Date and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 80%.



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   .   C\\l\\ - the lower target is established on the Effective Date and is
       not changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 77%.


   .   L - the target value as of the current Business Day.


   .   r - the target ratio.


   .   a - factors used in calculating the target value. These factors are
       established on the Effective Date and are not changed for the life of
       the guarantee (see page D-1 of your prospectus for the "a" factors)

   .   V\\V\\ - the total value of all Permitted Sub-accounts in the Contract.

   .   V\\F\\ - the total value of all elected Fixed Rate Options in the
       Contract.


   .   B - the total value of the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio
       Sub-account.


   .   P - Income Basis. Prior to the first withdrawal, the Income Basis is the
       Protected Withdrawal Value calculated as if the first withdrawal were
       taken on the date of calculation. After the first withdrawal, the Income
       Basis is equal to the greater of (1) the Protected Withdrawal Value at
       the time of the first withdrawal, adjusted for additional purchase
       payments including the amount of any associated Credits, and adjusted
       proportionally for excess withdrawals*, (2) any highest quarterly value
       increased for additional purchase payments including the amount of any
       associated Credits, and adjusted for withdrawals, and (3) the Contract
       Value.


   .   T - the amount of a transfer into or out of the AST Investment Grade
       Bond Portfolio Sub-account.

 *  Note: withdrawals of less than the Annual Income Amount do not reduce the
    Income Basis.

 TARGET VALUE CALCULATION:

 On each Business Day, a target value (L) is calculated, according to the
 following formula. If the Contract Value (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\) is equal to zero,
 no calculation is necessary.



                               
                            L    =    0.05 * P * a



 If you elect this feature, the following replaces the "Transfer Calculation"
 section in Appendix D (page D-1) of your prospectus.


 The following formula, which is set on the effective date of this feature and
 is not changed for the life of the guarantee, determines when a transfer is
 required:


 On the effective date of this feature (and only on the effective date of this
 feature), the following asset transfer calculation is performed to determine
 the amount of Contract Value allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 sub-account:




                                             
 If (B / (V\\v\\ + V\\f\\ + B)    (greater than)    .90) then
 T                                =                 B - [(V\\v\\ + V\\f\\ + B) *.90]



 If T is greater than $0 as described above, then no additional transfer
 calculations are performed on the effective date and future transfers to the
 AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account will not occur at least until there is
 first a transfer out of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.


 On each Business Day thereafter (including the effective date of this feature
 provided B/(V\\v\\ + V\\f\\ + B) (less than)=.90), the following asset
 transfer calculation is performed



                              
              Target Ratio r    =    (L - B) / (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\).


       .   If r (greater than) C\\u\\, assets in the Permitted Sub-accounts are
           transferred to the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account
           (subject to the 90% cap rule described above).

       .   If r (less than) C\\l\\, and there are currently assets in the AST
           Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account (B (greater than) 0),
           assets in the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio Sub-account are
           transferred to the Permitted Sub-accounts according to most recent
           allocation instructions.

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 The following formula, which is set on the Benefit Effective Date and is not
 changed for the life of the guarantee, determines the transfer amount:


                                                                   
 T    =    Min (MAX(0, (0.90 * (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\ + B)) - B),                  Money is transferred from the elected
           [L - B - (V\\V\\ + V\\F\\) * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))              Sub-accounts to the AST Investment Grade Bond
                                                                             Sub-account

 T    =    Min (B, - [L - B - (V\\v\\ + V\\f\\) * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))    Money is transferred from the AST Investment
                                                                             Grade Sub-account to the elected Sub-accounts




 Transfer Calculation if you elected Highest Daily Lifetime Seven or Spousal
 Highest Daily Lifetime Seven prior to July 21, 2008:


 The "Terms and Definitions referenced in the Calculation Formula" and the
 "Target Value Calculation" provided above remain unchanged and are included
 herein for ease of reference.


 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS REFERENCED IN THE CALCULATION FORMULA:
   .   C\\u\\ - the upper target is established on the effective date of the
       Highest Daily Lifetime Seven benefit (the "Effective Date") and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 83%.

   .   C\\t\\ - the target is established on the Effective Date and is not
       changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 80%.

   .   C\\l\\ - the lower target is established on the Effective Date and is
       not changed for the life of the guarantee. Currently, it is 77%.


   .   L - the target value as of the current Business Day.


   .   r - the target ratio.


   .   a - factors used in calculating the target value. These factors are
       established on the Effective Date and are not changed for the life of
       the guarantee (see page D-2 of your prospectus for the "a" factors)

   .   V - the total value of all Permitted Sub-accounts in the contract.


   .   B - the total value of the AST Investment Grade Bond Portfolio
       Sub-account.


   .   P - Income Basis. Prior to the first withdrawal, the Income Basis is the
       Protected Withdrawal Value calculated as if the first withdrawal were
       taken on the date of calculation. After the first withdrawal, the Income
       Basis is equal to the greater of (1) the Protected Withdrawal Value at
       the time of the first withdrawal, adjusted for additional purchase
       payments including the amount of any associated Credits, and adjusted
       proportionally for excess withdrawals*, (2) any highest quarterly value
       increased for additional purchase payments including the amount of any
       associated Credits, and adjusted for withdrawals, and (3) the Contract
       Value.


   .   T - the amount of a transfer into or out of the AST Investment Grade
       Bond Portfolio Sub-account

 *  Note: withdrawals of less than the Annual Income Amount do not reduce the
    Income Basis.

 TARGET VALUE CALCULATION:

 On each Business Day, a target value (L) is calculated, according to the
 following formula. If the variable contract value (V) is equal to zero, no
 calculation is necessary.



                               
                            L    =    0.05 * P * a



 If you elect this feature, the following replaces the "Transfer Calculation"
 section in Appendix D (page D-1) of your Contract prospectus.


 The following formula, which is set on the effective date of this feature and
 is not changed for the life of the guarantee, determines when a transfer is
 required:


 On the effective date of this feature (and only on the effective date of this
 feature), the following asset transfer calculation is performed to determine
 the amount of Contract Value allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account:



                                         
            If (B /(V + B)    (greater than)    .90) then
            T                 =                 B - [(V + B) *.90]


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 If T is greater than $0 as described above, then no additional transfer
 calculations are performed on the effective date.


 On each Business Day thereafter (including the effective date of this feature
 provided B/(V+B) (less than)=.90), the following asset transfer calculation is
 performed



                                      
                      Target Ratio r    =    (L - B) / V.




       .   If r (greater than) C\\u\\, assets in the Permitted Sub-accounts are
           transferred to AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

       .   If r (less than) C\\l\\ and there are currently assets in the AST
           Investment Grade Bond Sub-account (F (greater than) 0), assets in
           the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account are transferred to the
           Permitted Sub-accounts.

 The following formula, which is set on the Effective Date of this feature and
 is not changed for the life of the guarantee, determines the transfer amount:


                                                     
 T    =    Min(MAX(0, (0.90 * (V + B)) - B),                   Money is transferred from the elected Permitted
           [L - B - V * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\))                Sub-accounts to AST Investment Grade Bond
                                                               Sub-Account
 T    =    {Min(B, - [L - B - V * C\\t\\] / (1 - C\\t\\)} ,    Money is transferred from the AST Investment
                                                               Grade Bond Sub-account to the Permitted
                                                               Sub-accounts.


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                               OTHER INFORMATION

 Discontinuance of Certain Optional Living Benefits.
 1. As of the date of this supplement and subject to regulatory approval of
 Highest Daily Lifetime 7 Plus Income Benefit or Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime
 7 Plus Income Benefit in your state, you may no longer elect the following
 income benefits: Highest Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit, and Spousal
 Highest Daily Lifetime Seven Income Benefit. In addition, as of the date of
 this supplement, you may no longer elect the Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefit
 (GMIB). Check with your financial professional regarding availability of these
 benefits in your state.

 2. We add the following paragraph to page 97 of PL SPAO 3, page 89 of PLNJ
 SPAO 3, page 97 of Flexelite, page 98 of PL SPAO Plus 3 and page 91 of PLNJ
 SPAO Plus 3 of the prospectus section "Tax Considerations - Types of
 Tax-favored Plans"

 Caution: Recent IRS regulations may affect the taxation of 403(b) tax deferred
 annuity contract exchanges that occur after September 24, 2007.


 Certain transactions, often called "Revenue Ruling 90-24" exchanges or
 transfers, are a common non-taxable method to exchange one tax deferred
 annuity contract for another. The IRS has issued regulations that may impose
 restrictions on your ability make such an exchange. The regulations are
 generally effective in 2009 but there is great uncertainty about their
 application to contract exchanges that take place during the period following
 September 24, 2007 and before January 1, 2009 (the "gap period"). Because of
 this uncertainty, it is possible that an exchange that takes place during the
 gap period may cause you to incur taxation on the value of the contract. But
 it is also possible that such an exchange will not have adverse tax
 consequences. We have asked the IRS to provide more guidance on this critical
 issue. In the meantime, before you request an exchange during the gap period
 you should consult with your tax advisor. We began accepting such transfers on
 or about November 24, 2008 but only if we have entered into an
 information-sharing agreement, or its functional equivalent, with the
 applicable employer or its agent. In addition, in order to comply with the
 regulations, starting on or about January 1, 2009 we will only process certain
 transactions (e.g, transfers, withdrawals, hardship distributions and, if
 applicable, loans) with employer approval. This means that if you request one
 of these transactions we will not consider your request to be in good order,
 and will not therefore process the transaction, until we receive the
 employer's approval in written or electronic form.

 3. The following is added to page 85 of PL SPAO 3, page 79 of PLNJ SPAO 3,
 page 86 of Flexelite, Page 87 of PL SPAO Plus 3 and page 81 of PLNJ SPAO Plus
 3 of your prospectus at the end of the section entitled "How Can I Purchase a
 Strategic Partners Annuity One 3 Contract (PL), How Can I Purchase a Strategic
 Partners Annuity One 3 Contract (PLNJ)," How Can I Purchase a Strategic
 Partners FLEXELITE Contract, How Can I Purchase a Strategic Partners Annuity
 Plus 3 Contract (PL), or How Can I Purchase a Strategic Partners Annuity Plus
 3 Contract (PLNJ),

 "Beneficiary" Annuity

 You may purchase an Contract if you are a beneficiary of a contract that was
 owned by a decedent, subject to the following requirements. You may transfer
 the proceeds of the decedent's contract into one of the Annuities described in
 the prospectus and continue receiving the distributions that are required by
 the tax laws. This transfer option is only available for purchase of an IRA,
 Roth IRA, or a non-qualified contract, for distributions based on lives age 70
 or under. This transfer option is also not available if the proceeds are being
 transferred from a contract issued by us or one of our affiliates and the
 contract offers a "Beneficiary Continuation Option".

 Upon purchase, the Contract will be issued in the name of the decedent for
 your benefit. We will calculate your required distributions based on the
 applicable life expectancy in the year of the decedent's death, using Table 1
 in IRS Publication 590. You must take distributions at least annually. For
 IRAs and Roth IRAs, distributions must begin by December 31 of the year
 following the year of the decedent's death. If you are the surviving spouse
 beneficiary, distributions may be deferred until the decedent would have
 attained age 70 1/2, however if you choose to defer distributions, you are
 responsible for complying with the distribution requirements under the Code,
 and you must notify us when you would like distributions to begin. For
 additional information regarding the tax considerations applicable to
 beneficiaries of an IRA or Roth IRA, see "Required Distributions Upon Your
 Death for Qualified Annuity Contracts" in the Tax Considerations section of
 your prospectus.

 For non-qualified Annuities, distributions must begin within one year of the
 decedent's death. For additional information regarding the tax considerations
 applicable to beneficiaries of a non-qualified Contract see "Required
 Distributions Upon Your Death for Nonqualified Contract Contracts" in the Tax
 Consideration section of your prospectus.

 You may choose to take more than your required distribution. You may take
 withdrawals in excess of your required distributions, however your withdrawal
 may be subject to the Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. Any withdrawals reduce
 the required distribution for the year. All applicable charges will be
 assessed against your Contract, such as the Insurance Charge and the Annual
 Maintenance Fee.


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 The Contract may provide a basic Death Benefit upon death, and you may name a
 "successor" who may either receive the Death Benefit as a lump sum or continue
 receiving distributions after your death under the Beneficiary Continuation
 Option.

 Please note the following additional limitations:
   .   No additional Purchase Payments are permitted. You may only make a
       one-time initial Purchase Payment transferred to us directly from
       another contract or eligible account. You may not make your Purchase
       Payment as an indirect rollover.
   .   You may not elect any optional living or death benefits. Annuity Rewards
       is not available.
   .   You may not annuitize the Contract; no contract options are available.
   .   You may participate only in the following programs: Auto-Rebalancing,
       Dollar Cost Averaging (but not Enhanced Dollar Cost Averaging),
       Systematic Withdrawals, and Third Party Investment Advisor.
   .   You may not assign or change ownership of the Contract, and you may not
       change or designate another life upon which distributions are based. A
       "beneficiary annuity" may not be co-owned.
   .   If the Contract is funded by means of transfer from another "beneficiary
       annuity" with another company, we require that the sending company or
       the beneficial owner provide certain information in order to ensure that
       applicable required distributions have been made prior to the transfer
       of the contract proceeds to us. We further require appropriate
       information to enable us to accurately determine future distributions
       from the Contract. Please note we are unable to accept a transfer of
       another "beneficiary annuity" where taxes are calculated based on an
       exclusion amount or an exclusion ratio of earnings to original
       investment. We are also unable to accept a transfer of a contract that
       has annuitized.
   .   The beneficial owner of the Contract can be an individual, grantor
       trust, or, for an IRA or Roth IRA, a qualified trust. In general, a
       qualified trust (1) must be valid under state law; (2) must be
       irrevocable or became irrevocable by its terms upon the death of the IRA
       or Roth IRA owner; and (3) the beneficiaries of the trust who are
       beneficiaries with respect to the trust's interest in this Contract must
       be identifiable from the trust instrument and must be individuals. A
       qualified trust must provide us with a list of all beneficiaries to the
       trust (including contingent and remainder beneficiaries with a
       description of the conditions on their entitlement), all of whom must be
       individuals, as of September 30/th/ of the year following the year of
       death of the IRA or Roth IRA owner, or date of Contract application if
       later. The trustee must also provide a copy of the trust document upon
       request. If the beneficial owner of the Contract is a grantor trust,
       distributions must be based on the life expectancy of the grantor. If
       the beneficial owner of the Contract is a qualified trust, distributions
       must be based on the life expectancy of the oldest beneficiary under the
       trust.
   .   If this Beneficiary Contract is transferred to another company as a
       tax-free exchange with the intention of qualifying as a beneficiary
       annuity with the receiving company, we may require certifications from
       the receiving company that required distributions will be made as
       required by law.
   .   If you are transferring proceeds as beneficiary of an annuity that is
       owned by a decedent, we must receive your transfer request at least 45
       days prior to your first required distribution. If, for any reason, your
       transfer request impedes our ability to complete your first distribution
       by the required date, we will be unable to accept your transfer request.

 4. We replace the section of the prospectus (page 67 of PL SPAO 3, page 61 of
 PLNJ SPAO 3, page 67 of Flexelite, page 69 of PL SPAO Plus 3 and page 58 of
 PLNJ SPAO Plus 3) entitled "Asset Transfer Component of Highest Daily Lifetime
 Five" with the following:


 Asset Transfer Component of Highest Daily Lifetime Five

 As indicated above, we limit the sub-accounts to which you may allocate
 Contract Value if you elect Highest Daily Lifetime Five. For purposes of this
 benefit, we refer to those permitted sub-accounts as the "Permitted
 Sub-accounts". As a requirement of participating in Highest Daily Lifetime
 Five, we require that you participate in our specialized asset transfer
 program, under which we may transfer Contract Value between the Permitted
 Sub-accounts and a fixed interest rate account that is part of our general
 account (the "Benefit Fixed Rate Account"). We determine whether to make a
 transfer, and the amount of any transfer, under a non-discretionary formula,
 discussed below. The Benefit Fixed Rate Account is available only with this
 benefit, and you may not allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value
 to or from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. The interest rate that we pay with
 respect to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account is reduced by an amount that
 corresponds generally to the charge that we assess against your variable
 Sub-accounts for Highest Daily Lifetime Five. The Benefit Fixed Rate Account
 is not subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940 or the Securities Act of
 1933.

 Under the asset transfer component of Highest Daily Lifetime Five, we monitor
 your Contract Value daily and, if necessary, systematically transfer amounts
 between the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen and the Benefit Fixed Rate
 Account. Any transfer would be made in accordance with a formula, which is set
 forth in the schedule supplement to the endorsement for this benefit (and also
 appears in the Appendices to the prospectus). Speaking generally, the formula,
 which we apply each Business Day, operates as follows. The formula starts by
 identifying your Protected Withdrawal Value for that day and then multiplies
 that figure by 5%, to produce a projected (i.e., hypothetical) Highest Daily
 Annual Income Amount. Then, using our actuarial tables, we produce an estimate
 of the total amount we would target in our allocation model, based on the
 projected Highest Daily Annual Income Amount each year for the rest of your
 life. In the formula, we refer to that value as the "Target Value" or "L". If
 you have already made a withdrawal, your projected Highest Daily Annual Income
 Amount (and thus your Target Value) would take into account any automatic
 step-up that was scheduled to occur according to the step-up formula described
 above. Next, the formula subtracts from the Target Value the amount held
 within the Benefit Fixed Rate Account on that day, and divides that difference
 by


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 the amount held within the Permitted Sub-accounts. That ratio, which
 essentially isolates the amount of your Target Value that is not offset by
 amounts held within the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, is called the "Target
 Ratio" or "r". If the Target Ratio exceeds a certain percentage (currently
 83%) it means essentially that not enough Target Value is offset by assets
 within the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, and therefore we will transfer an
 amount from your Permitted Sub-accounts to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account.
 Conversely, if the Target Ratio falls below a certain percentage (currently
 77%), then a transfer from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account to the Permitted
 Sub-accounts would occur. Note that the formula is calculated with reference
 to the Highest Daily Annual Income Amount, rather than with reference to the
 Annual Income Amount. If you elect the new asset transfer formula calculation
 offered in this supplement, see the discussion above regarding the 90% cap
 rule.

 As you can glean from the formula, poor investment performance of your
 Contract Value may result in a transfer of a portion of your variable Contract
 Value to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, because such poor investment
 performance will tend to increase the Target Ratio. Moreover, "flat"
 investment returns of your Contract Value over a period of time also could
 result in the transfer of your Contract Value to the Benefit Fixed Rate
 Account. Because the amount allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account and
 the amount allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts each is a variable in the
 formula, the investment performance of each affects whether a transfer occurs
 for your Contract. In deciding how much to transfer, we use another formula,
 which essentially seeks to re-balance amounts held in the Permitted
 Sub-accounts and the Benefit Fixed Rate Account so that the Target Ratio meets
 a target, which currently is equal to 80%. Once you elect Highest Daily
 Lifetime Five, the ratios we use will be fixed. For newly issued annuities
 that elect Highest Daily Lifetime Five and existing annuities that elect
 Highest Daily Lifetime Five, however, we reserve the right to change the
 ratios.

 While you are not notified when your Contract reaches a reallocation trigger,
 you will receive a confirmation statement indicating the transfer of a portion
 of your Contract Value either to or from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. The
 formula by which the reallocation triggers operate is designed primarily to
 mitigate the financial risks that we incur in providing the guarantee under
 Highest Daily Lifetime Five.


 Depending on the results of the calculation relative to the reallocation
 triggers, we may, on any day:
..   Not make any transfer between the Permitted Sub-accounts and the Benefit
    Fixed Rate Account; or

..   If a portion of your Contract Value was previously allocated to the Benefit
    Fixed Rate Account, transfer all or a portion of those amounts to the
    Permitted Sub-accounts, based on your existing allocation instructions or
    (in the absence of such existing instructions) pro rata (i.e., in the same
    proportion as the current balances in your variable investment options).
    Amounts taken out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account will be withdrawn for
    this purpose on a last-in, first-out basis (an amount renewed into a new
    guarantee period under the Benefit Fixed Rate Account will be deemed a new
    investment for purposes of this last-in, first-out rule); or
..   Transfer all or a portion of your Contract Value in the Permitted
    Sub-accounts pro-rata to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. The interest that
    you earn on such transferred amount will be equal to the annual rate that
    we have set for that day, and we will credit the daily equivalent of that
    annual interest until the earlier of one year from the date of the transfer
    or the date that such amount in the Benefit Fixed Rate Account is
    transferred back to the Permitted Sub-accounts.

 Therefore, at any given time, some, none, or all of your Contract Value may be
 allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account. If your entire Contract Value is
 transferred to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, then based on the way the
 formula operates, the formula will not transfer amounts out of the Benefit
 Fixed Rate Account to the Permitted Sub-accounts and the entire Contract Value
 would remain in the Benefit Rate Fixed Account. If you make additional
 Purchase Payments to your Contract, they will be allocated to the Sub-accounts
 according to your allocation instructions. Such additional Purchase Payments
 may or may not cause the formula to transfer money in or out of the Benefit
 Fixed Rate Account. Once the Purchase Payments are allocated to your Contract,
 they will also be subject to the mathematical formula, which may result in
 immediate transfers to or from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account, if dictated by
 the formula. The amounts of any such transfers will vary, as dictated by the
 formula, and will depend on the factors listed below.

 The amount that is transferred to and from the Benefit Fixed Rate Account
 pursuant to the mathematical formula depends upon a number of factors unique
 to your Contract (and is not necessarily directly correlated with the
 securities markets, bond markets, or interest rates, in general) including:

..   How long you have owned Highest Daily Lifetime Five;


..   The performance of the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen;
..   The performance of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account (i.e., the amount of
    interest credited to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account);

..   The amount allocated to each of the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen;
..   The amount allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account;
..   Additional Purchase Payments, if any, you make to your Contract;
..   Withdrawals, if any, you take from your Contract (withdrawals are taken pro
    rata from your Contract Value).

 Any Contract Value in the Benefit Fixed Rate Account will not be available to
 participate in the investment experience of the Permitted Sub-accounts if
 there is a recovery until it is moved out of the Benefit Fixed Rate Account.


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 The more of your Contract Value allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account
 under the formula, the greater the impact of the performance of the Benefit
 Fixed Rate Account in determining whether (and how much) of your Contract
 Value is transferred back to the Permitted Sub-accounts. Further, it is
 possible under the formula, that if a significant portion your Contract Value
 is allocated to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account and that Account has good
 performance but the performance of your Permitted Sub-accounts is negative,
 that the formula might transfer your Contract Value to the Permitted
 Sub-accounts. Thus, the converse is true too (the more you have allocated to
 the Permitted Sub-accounts, the greater the impact of the performance of those
 Sub-accounts will have on any transfer to the Benefit Fixed Rate Account).

 5. We replace the sections of the prospectus (page 74 and 81 for PL SPAO 3,
 page 68 and 75 for PLJN SPAO 3, page 74 and 81 for Flexelite, page 76 and 83
 for PL SPAO Plus 3 and 70 and 77 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3) entitled "Asset
 Transfer Component of Highest Daily Lifetime Seven" and "Asset Transfer
 Component of Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime Seven" (as applicable) with the
 following:

 Asset Transfer Component of Highest Daily Lifetime Seven and Spousal Highest
 Daily Lifetime Seven
 As indicated above, we limit the Sub-accounts to which you may allocate
 Contract Value if you elect Highest Daily Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily
 Lifetime Seven. For purposes of the benefit, we refer to those permitted
 Sub-accounts as the "Permitted Sub-accounts". As a requirement of
 participating in Highest Daily Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime
 Seven, we require that you participate in our specialized asset transfer
 program, under which we may transfer Contract Value between the Permitted
 Sub-accounts and a specified bond fund within the Advanced Series Trust (the
 "AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account"). We determine whether to make a
 transfer, and the amount of any transfer, under a non-discretionary
 mathematical formula, discussed below. The AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account is available only with this benefit, and you may not allocate
 Purchase Payments to or transfer Contract Value to or from the AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account. Under the asset transfer component of Highest Daily
 Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime Seven, we monitor your Contract
 Value daily and, if dictated by the formula, systematically transfer amounts
 between the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen and the AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account. Any transfer would be made in accordance with a
 formula, which is set forth in the Appendices to this prospectus.

 Speaking generally, the formula, which we apply each Business Day, operates as
 follows. The formula starts by identifying an income basis for that day and
 then multiplies that figure by 5%, to produce a projected (i.e., hypothetical)
 income amount. Note that we use 5% in the formula, irrespective of the
 Annuitant's attained age. Then we produce an estimate of the total amount we
 would target in our allocation model, based on the projected income amount and
 factors set forth in the formula. In the formula, we refer to that value as
 the "Target Value" or "L". If you have already made a withdrawal, your
 projected income amount (and thus your Target Value) would take into account
 any automatic step-up, any subsequent purchase payments, and any excess
 withdrawals. Next, the formula subtracts from the Target Value the amount held
 within the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account on that day, and divides that
 difference by the amount held within the Permitted Sub-accounts. That ratio,
 which essentially isolates the amount of your Target Value that is not offset
 by amounts held within the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, is called
 the "Target Ratio" or "r". If the Target Ratio exceeds a certain percentage
 (currently 83%), it means essentially that not enough Target Value is offset
 by assets within the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, and therefore we
 will transfer an amount from your Permitted Sub-accounts to the AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account. Conversely, if the Target Ratio falls below a certain
 percentage (currently 77%), then a transfer from the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account to the Permitted Sub-accounts would occur. If you elect the new
 asset transfer formula calculation offered in this supplement, see the
 discussion above regarding the 90% cap rule.

 As you can glean from the formula, poor investment performance of your
 Contract Value may result in a transfer of a portion of your variable Contract
 Value to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account because such poor
 investment performance will tend to increase the Target Ratio.

 Moreover, "flat" investment returns of your Contract Value over a period of
 time also could result in the transfer of your Contract Value from the
 Permitted Sub-accounts to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. Because
 the amount allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and the
 amount allocated to the Permitted Sub-accounts each is a variable in the
 formula, the investment performance of each affects whether a transfer occurs
 for your Contract. In deciding how much to transfer, we use another formula,
 which essentially seeks to re-balance amounts held in the Permitted
 Sub-accounts and the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account so that the Target
 Ratio meets a target, which currently is equal to 80%. Once you elect Highest
 Daily Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime Seven, the ratios we use
 will be fixed. For newly-issued Annuities that elect Highest Daily Lifetime
 Seven/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime Seven and existing Annuities that elect
 Highest Daily Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily Lifetime Seven, however, we
 reserve the right to change the ratios.

 While you are not notified when your Contract reaches a reallocation trigger,
 you will receive a confirmation statement indicating the transfer of a portion
 of your Contract Value either to or from the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account. The formula by which the reallocation triggers operate is
 designed primarily to mitigate the financial risks that we incur in providing
 the guarantee under Highest Daily Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily
 Lifetime Seven.


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 Depending on the results of the calculation relative to the reallocation
 triggers, we may, on any day:
..   Not make any transfer between the Permitted Sub-accounts and the AST
    Investment Grade Bond Sub-account; or

..   If a portion of your Contract Value was previously allocated to the AST
    Investment Grade Bond Sub-account, transfer all or a portion of those
    amounts to the Permitted Sub-accounts, based on your existing allocation
    instructions or (in the absence of such existing instructions) pro rata
    (i.e., in the same proportion as the current balances in your variable
    investment options).; or
..   Transfer all or a portion of your Contract Value in the Permitted
    Sub-accounts pro rata to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

 Therefore, at any given time, some, none, or all of your Contract Value may be
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account. If your entire
 Contract Value is transferred to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account,
 then based on the way the formula operates, the formula will not transfer
 amounts out of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account to the Permitted
 Sub-accounts and the entire Contract Value would remain in the AST Investment
 Grade Bond Sub-account. If you make additional Purchase Payments to your
 Contract, they will be allocated to the Sub-accounts according to your
 allocation instructions. Such additional Purchase Payments may or may not
 cause the formula to transfer money in or out of the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account. Once the Purchase Payments are allocated to your Contract, they
 will also be subject to the mathematical formula, which may result in
 immediate transfers to or from the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-accounts, if
 dictated by the formula. The amounts of any such transfers will vary, as
 dictated by the formula, and will depend on the factors listed below.

 The amount that is transferred to and from the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account pursuant to the mathematical formula depends upon a number of
 factors unique to your Contract (and is not necessarily directly correlated
 with the securities markets, bond markets, or interest rates, in general)
 including:

..   How long you have owned Highest Daily Lifetime Seven/Spousal Highest Daily
    Lifetime Seven;
..   The performance of the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen;
..   The performance of the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account;

..   The amount allocated to each of the Permitted Sub-accounts you have chosen;
..   The amount allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account;
..   Additional Purchase Payments, if any, you make to your Contract;
..   Withdrawals, if any, you take from your Contract (withdrawals are taken pro
    rata from your Contract Value).

 Any Contract Value in the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account will not be
 available to participate in the investment experience of the Permitted
 Sub-accounts if there is a recovery until it is moved out of the AST
 Investment Grade Bond Sub-account.

 The more of your Contract Value allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account under the formula, the greater the impact of the performance of
 that Sub-account in determining whether (and how much) of your Contract Value
 is transferred back to the Permitted Sub-accounts. Further, it is possible
 under the formula, that if a significant portion your Contract Value is
 allocated to the AST Investment Grade Bond Sub-account and that Sub-account
 has good performance but the performance of your Permitted Sub-accounts is
 negative, that the formula might transfer your Contract Value to the Permitted
 Sub-accounts. Thus, the converse is true too (the more you have allocated to
 the Permitted Sub-accounts, the greater the impact of the performance of those
 Sub-accounts will have on any transfer to the AST Investment Grade Bond
 Sub-account).

 6. The following information is added to your prospectus (page 23 for PL SPAO
 3, page 21 for PLNJ SPAO 3, page 22 for Flexelite, page 23 for PL SPAO Plus 3,
 and page 21 for PLNJ SPAO Plus 3) regarding certain Investment Options:

 A. Effective November 24, 2008, two additional sub-advisors are being added to
 AST Academic Strategies Asset Allocation Portfolio. Accordingly, in the
 section entitled "What Investment Options Can I Choose?", we add the
 sub-advisors referenced below to the column entitled "Portfolio
 Advisor/Sub-Advisor."

 First Quadrant L.P. (First Quadrant) and AlphaSimplex Group, LLC
 (AlphaSimplex) are being added as additional sub-advisors to AST Academic
 Strategies Asset Allocation Portfolio. The expenses and investment
 objectives/policies do not change as a result of the addition of the new
 sub-advisors.

 B. Effective on or about December 15, 2008, Eaton Vance LLC will replace J.P.
 Morgan Investment Management, Inc. as sub-advisor for AST Large-Cap Value
 Portfolio.

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                                    PART II

Item 16. Exhibits

(23) Written Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered
     Public Accounting Firm



                                  SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this post-effective
amendment to be signed on its behalf in the City of Newark and the State of New
Jersey on this 28th day of January, 2009.

                         PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                                  Registrant


                                         

Attest:  /s/ Thomas C. Castano                 /s/ Scott D. Kaplan
         ----------------------------------    ---------------------------------
         Thomas C. Castano                     Scott D. Kaplan
         Chief Legal Officer and Secretary     President and Chief Executive
                                               Officer


                                  SIGNATURES

As required by the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

                              Signature and Title

                                      January 28, 2009

  *
  ----------------------------------
  JAMES J. AVERY JR.
  VICE CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTOR

  *                                   *By:  /s/ Thomas C. Castano
  ----------------------------------        ---------------------------------
  SCOTT D. KAPLAN                           THOMAS C. CASTANO
  DIRECTOR                                  CORPORATE COUNSEL
  *
  ----------------------------------


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TUCKER I. MARR
CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER


*
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BERNARD J. JACOB
DIRECTOR


*
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HELEN M. GALT
DIRECTOR


*
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SCOTT G. SLEYSTER
DIRECTOR


*
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STEPHEN PELLETIER
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