Voluntary Benefits

Group Universal Life

MetLife's Group Universal Life (GUL) product is a voluntary, portable¹ group life insurance product designed to supplement existing benefits programs by providing employees with an additional means of helping to provide financial protection to their families.

GUL is easy to administer and generally an employee-pay-all (voluntary) program, so administrative workloads are reduced and costs minimized. In addition, attractive program features will be appreciated by employees and show concern for their financial protection.

MetLife's Group Universal Life

A voluntary life insurance coverage that includes a tax-deferred cash fund.²

MetLife's GUL allows you to offer an additional method of employee life insurance that includes a cash accumulation feature and relieves you from the day-to-day administrative tasks typically associated with life insurance. Participants will benefit from flexibility, competitive interest rates, tax advantages, options at retirement, loan and withdrawal privileges.

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MetLife Estate Resolution Services

MetLife Estate Resolution Services^SM 4 offers the beneficiary and/or executor of an employee's estate access to personal legal advice and consultation, with a Hyatt Legal Plans' participating attorney in connection with settling the insured's will and estate. The estate representative has access to actual probate services. This comprehensive estate probate service comes at no additional cost for participating attorney services, which can help alleviate financial and administrative burden while giving beneficiaries a sense of security in their time of need.

Will Preparation

To help insureds protect their assets and secure their families' financial future, Will Preparation⁴ offers insureds and their spouses access to Hyatt Legal Plans' network of over 10,000 participating plan attorneys, and fully covers the legal fees associated with preparing or updating a will, when using a participating attorney. Will Preparation is available to companies with 500+ lives to active employees and retirees who participate in MetLife’s Supplemental Life Insurance, and is offered by Hyatt Legal Plans, a MetLife company.

Portability

Plan provision which allows employees to continue their coverage when employment ends due to voluntary termination, retirement, or dismissal; or when they are no longer classified as an eligible class for benefits.¹

Waiver of Premium

Allows covered employees to receive death benefit coverage after life insurance coverage ends, if they become totally disabled and are not at work due to such disability. "Waiver of Premium" waives premium for the disabled employee after a specified waiting period.

¹ Portability is subject to state availability and plan provisions. In some program designs, if the employer replaces MetLife GUL with group life insurance from another insurer or otherwise terminates the MetLife GUL group contract, employees' MetLife GUL coverage may be terminated, even after separation from employment or in retirement.

² GUL is not available to South Dakota residents.

³ In some plan designs, if the employer replaces MetLife GUL with group life insurance from another insurer or otherwise terminates the MetLife GUL group contract, employees' MetLife GUL coverage may also be terminated, even after separation from employment or retirement.

⁴ MetLife Estate Resolution Services and Will Preparation services are offered by Hyatt Legal Plans, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. In certain states, legal services benefits are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Warwick, Rhode Island. MetLife Estate Resolution Services and Will Preparation services are subject to regulatory approval and are not available in all states.

Like most group life insurance policies, MetLife group policies contain certain exclusions, reductions, limitations, and terms for keeping them in force. Please contact us for costs and complete details.

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