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Helping navigate life’s twists and turns

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Life insurance can be a critical first step in helping to ensure your family’s financial well-being. With your MetLife group life insurance coverage, you get access to useful services to help you make the right decisions to manage what life may bring.

Planning for the future

  • Funeral Discount & Planning Services*: Helping to alleviate the burden of making funeral arrangements for your loved ones. Get access to one of the largest network of funeral homes and cemeteries to pre-plan with a counselor and receive discounts on funeral services.
  • Estate Planning Services**,***: Helping to ensure final wishes are clear. Employees can choose to complete wills and other important estate planning documents quickly and easily online [with access to online notary services], [or work one-on-one with an attorney, in-person or on the phone,] to prepare or update a will, living will or power of attorney.
  • Retirement Planning****: Retiring with confidence. Access workshops that offer comprehensive retirement and financial education to help you plan for the future, through our Retirewise program.

Assisting through life’s changes

  • Transition Solutions****: Having assistance when moving on from a company. Receive help with time-sensitive benefit and financial decisions so you can make the right choices during employment transitions.
  • Portability^: Helping to prevent gaps in your coverage. Take your life insurance benefits with you at competitive group rates.^^
  • Employee Assistance Program^^^: Getting help when it’s needed most. Receive confidential, professional guidance and counseling services for behavioral, health and life issues.
  • Travel Assistance^^^^: Traveling with peace of mind. Access to medical, travel, and concierge services — 24 hours a day, 365 days a year when traveling internationally or domestically.

Supporting you and your loved ones through difficult times

  • Empathy+: Support and guidance for beneficiaries managing their grief as well as help with probating and settling an estate, closing accounts, home clearing, and more. Beneficiaries can choose to get the support they need online through the Empathy app/portal, or with a dedicated Care Manager, or a combination of both.
  • Grief Counseling++: Accessing professional support in a time of need. Meet in-person or by phone with a licensed counselor to help cope with a loss or major life change.
  • Beneficiary Grief Counseling++: Personalized counseling sessions to meet your beneficiary’s needs. Any beneficiary who receives the life insurance proceeds is eligible for up to five counseling sessions. These sessions can be in-person or by phone with one of TELUS Health’s network of counselors who provide professional, confidential support during difficult times.
  • Funeral Assistance++: Honoring a loved one’s life. Work with compassionate counselors that assist with customizing funeral arrangements with personalized one-on-one service.
  • Beneficiary Claim Assistance****: Making the claims process easy. Your beneficiaries get guidance from experts as they work through their options and financial needs with our Delivering the Promise services.
  • Estate Resolution Services+++: Settling an estate with confidence. With unlimited consultations, either in-person with an attorney or by phone, including court representations, you can feel confident you’ve made the right decisions.
  • Total Control Account++++: Reducing the pressure of immediate financial decisions. Your beneficiaries can take their time to make the right decision with the flexible settlement option that gives full access to policy funds while earning a guaranteed minimum interest rate.

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* Services and discounts are provided through a member of the Dignity Memorial® Network, a brand name used to identify a network of licensed funeral, cremation and cemetery providers that are affiliates of Service Corporation International (together with its affiliates, “SCI”), 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas. The online planning site is provided by SCI Shared Resources, LLC. SCI is not affiliated with MetLife, and the services provided by Dignity Memorial members are separate and apart from the insurance provided by MetLife. Not available in some states. Planning services, expert assistance, and bereavement travel services are available to anyone regardless of affiliation with MetLife. Discounts through Dignity Memorial’s network of funeral providers are pre-negotiated. Not available where prohibited by law. [Not approved for group policies sitused in AK, FL, KY, MT, ND, NY and WA.] If the group policy is issued in an approved state, the discount is available for services offered in any state except KY and NY, or where there is no Dignity Memorial presence (AK, MT, ND, SD, and WY). For MI and TN, the discount is available for “At Need” services only. [For coverage issued under a multiple-employer trust, services are not available for WA residents.]

** Included with Supplemental Life. Will Preparation is offered by MetLife Legal Plans, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. In certain states, legal services benefits are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by Metropolitan General Insurance Company, Warwick, Rhode Island. For New York sitused or principally located cases, the Will Preparation service is an expanded offering that includes office consultations and telephone advice for certain other legal matters beyond Will Preparation. Tax Planning and preparation of Living Trusts are not covered by the Will Preparation Service.

*** Digital Estate Planning

**** MetLife administers the Transition Solutions program and has arranged to have specially trained third party financial professionals offer financial education. The financial professionals providing financial education are not affiliated with MetLife but are providing the program under a service provider contract.

^ All coverage amounts are subject to applicable state laws. To take advantage of this benefit, coverage of at least [$10,000][$20,000] must be elected.

^^ Cost of insurance rates are determined using methodologies that vary by company. These rates can vary and will generally increase with age. Rates for active employees may be different than those available to terminated or retired employees. It’s important to look at all factors when evaluating the overall competitiveness of rates and the value of life insurance coverage.

^^^ EAP services provided through an agreement with TELUS Health. TELUS Health is not a subsidiary or affiliate of MetLife. Information disclosed directly to TELUS Health is not disclosed to MetLife, and therefore is not subject to MetLife’s privacy policy.

^^^^ Travel Assistance services are offered and administered by AXA Assistance USA, Inc. Certain benefits provided under the Travel Assistance program are underwritten by Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London (not incorporated) through Lloyd’s Illinois, Inc. Neither AXA Assistance USA Inc. nor the Lloyd’s entities are affiliated with MetLife, and the services and benefits they provide are separate and apart from the insurance provided by MetLife.

+ Empathy’s bereavement services and platform are provided through an agreement with The Empathy Project, Inc., (doing business as Empathy). Empathy is not an affiliate of MetLife, and the services Empathy provides are separate and apart from the insurance provided by MetLife. This program is available to beneficiaries, and insureds who are terminally ill and eligible to accelerate life proceeds under MetLife's Accelerated Benefit Option. Not available on all policy forms or in all jurisdictions. Empathy is only available to insureds and beneficiaries who are US residents. Information disclosed directly to Empathy is not disclosed to MetLife, and therefore is not subject to MetLife’s privacy policy.

++ Grief Counseling and Funeral Assistance services are provided through an agreement with TELUS Health. TELUS Health is not an affiliate of MetLife, and the services TELUS Health provides are separate and apart from the insurance provided by MetLife. TELUS Health has a nationwide network of over 30,000 counselors. Counselors have master’s or doctoral degrees and are licensed professionals. The Grief Counseling program does not provide support for issues such as domestic issues, parenting issues, or marital/relationship issues (other than a finalized divorce). For such issues, members should inquire with their human resources department about available company resources. This program is available to insureds, their dependents and beneficiaries who have received a serious medical diagnosis or suffered a loss. Events that may result in a loss are not covered under this program unless and until such a loss has occurred. Services are not available in all jurisdictions and are subject to regulatory approval. Not available on all policy forms.

++ Beneficiary Grief Counseling services are provided through an agreement with TELUS Health. TELUS Health is not an affiliate of MetLife, and the services TELUS Health provides are separate and apart from the insurance provided by MetLife. TELUS Health has a nationwide network of over 30,000 counselors. Counselors have master’s or doctoral degrees and are licensed professionals. This program is available only to beneficiaries of MetLife group Life Insurance programs. Events that may result in a loss are not covered under this program unless and until such loss has occurred.

+++ Included with Supplemental Life Insurance. Estate Resolution Services are offered by MetLife Legal Plans, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. In certain states, legal services benefits are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by Metropolitan General Insurance Company, Warwick, Rhode Island. Certain services are not covered by Estate Resolution Services, including matters in which there is a conflict of interest between the executor and any beneficiary or heir and the estate; any disputes with the group policyholder, MetLife and/or any of its affiliates; any disputes involving statutory benefits; will contests or litigation outside probate court; appeals; court costs, filing fees, recording fees, transcripts, witness fees, expenses to a third party, judgments or fines; and frivolous or unethical matters.

++++ Subject to state law, and/or group policyholder direction, the Total Control Account is provided for all Life and AD&D benefits of $5,000 or more. The assets backing the Total Control Account (TCA) are maintained in the general account of MetLife or the Issuing Insurance Company. These general accounts are subject to the creditors of MetLife or the respective Issuing Insurance Company. MetLife or the Issuing Insurance Company bears the investment experience of such assets and expects to earn income sufficient to pay interest to TCA Accountholders and to make a profit on the operation of the TCAs. Regardless of the investment experience of such assets, the effective annual rate on the Account will not be less than the rate guaranteed on the welcome guide. The TCA and other available settlement options are not bank products and are not insured by the FDIC or any other governmental agency. In addition, while the funds in your account are not insured by the FDIC, they are guaranteed by each state’s insurance guarantee association. The coverage limits vary by state. Please contact the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations (www.NOLHGA.com or 703-481-5206) to learn more. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STATE DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE.

Nothing in these materials is intended to be advice for a particular situation or individual. Please consult with your own advisors for such advice. Like most group insurance policies, insurance policies offered by MetLife contain certain exclusions, exceptions, waiting periods, reductions, limitations and terms for keeping them in force. Please contact your benefits administrator or MetLife for costs and complete details. MetLife Group Term Life insurance is issued by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166, under Policy Form GPN99/G2130-S.