Retiree Life
Partner with us to more efficiently cover group-term, retiree life insurance premiums over time.
Keep Your Promises to Employees
We understand the unique financial challenges that come with providing retiree life benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis. Our retiree life funding solutions lower your long term "out-of-pocket" premium, mitigate risk and improve financial security for your employees.
Our Retiree Life Insurance Solutions Enable Your Company to:
- Reduce long-term costs through tax efficiency
- Strengthen financial statements
- Improve benefit security for retirees
Retiree Life Funding
Comfortably set aside money to cover retiree life insurance costs with a retiree life funding program.
Retiree Life Buyout
Transfer your company's retiree liability and plan administration to MetLife with a retiree life buyout.
MetLife Funding Agreement
Fund general employee benefits or transfer plan assets into a MetLife Funding Agreement.
Our Life Insurance Funding Account (LIFA) allows your company to:
- Pre-fund future retiree life premiums in a tax-advantaged reserve
- Reduce long-term expenses for retiree life insurance premiums
- Improve financials by offsetting ASC-715 (or GASB 74/75) accounting liabilities
Our Guaranteed Life Insurance Funding Account (GLIFA) allows your company to:
- Transfer ASC-715 (or GASB 74/75) accounting liability on existing retirees to MetLife
- Cap future costs associated with retiree premiums
- Eliminate retiree life recordkeeping and associated administrative burdens and costs
A MetLife Funding Agreement:
- Can be used to pay for future insurance premiums, to fund liabilities, or as an investment allocation for welfare benefit funding
- Provides safety, convenience and flexibility
- Ensures a principal and interest rate guarantee1
Why Choose MetLife?
Our dedicated Post-Retirement Benefits (PRB) team brings a wealth of experience to your funding solution.
Our retiree life solutions were designed with the flexibility to simply and efficiently fund and/or transfer a plan sponsor’s retiree life insurance liabilities.
We take a consultative approach, working with you to tailor our solutions to meet your organizational objectives.
Meet the Team
Get to know the people who will help you make the best choices for your company’s retiree life benefits.
MetLife's Evolving Retirement Model Study
Today’s workplace landscape has evolved from the traditional notions of retirement. With this new retirement model come several considerations to meet the needs of an aging workforce, as well as the generations of workers who follow behind them.