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| **UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

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**ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

 

**For the fiscal year ended****December** **31, 2008**

 

**Commission File Number:**     **333-150147, 333-133157, 333-133158, 333-130833, 333-130827**

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| **ING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Connecticut**

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

 

**One Orange Way**

**Windsor, Connecticut**

 

(Address of principal executive offices)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | **71-0294708**

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

**06095-4774**

(Zip Code)

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| **(860) 580-4646**

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes     o      No     x

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.  Yes     o      No     x

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.       Yes     x      No     o

 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated byreference in Part III of this form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.       Yes     x      No     o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See definition of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):

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| Large accelerated filer            o                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Accelerated filer           o | Non-accelerated filer     x

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reporting company) | Smaller reporting company     o |
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).        Yes     o      No     x

 

State the aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held bynon-affiliates:     N/A

 

**APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE ISSUERS:**

 

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date: 55,000 shares of Common Stock, $50 par value, as of March 24, 2009, are issued and outstanding, all of which were directly owned by Lion Connecticut Holdings Inc.

 

NOTE: WHEREAS ING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY MEETS THE CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN GENERAL INSTRUCTION I(1)(a) AND (b) OF FORM 10-K, THIS FORM IS BEING FILED WITH THE REDUCED DISCLOSURE FORMAT PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION I(2).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
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