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NAIFA’s advocacy educates and informs policymakers so they understand the important work insurance and financial professionals do to help American families and businesses achieve their financial goals and attain financial security. Well-informed officials make better decisions to serve NAIFA members and their clients as well as all Americans who seek financially secure futures.

NAIFA’s Congressional Congress, May 25-26, will be a virtual event featuring targeted advocacy training with briefings on legislative issues that affect members’ businesses, best practices for conducting congressional meetings, and tips for developing impactful long-term relationships with legislators.

Financial Literacy | April 8 | 6:30 pm Eastern

Attention IFAPAC and Advocacy leaders: If you have not yet registered for this event, please do so by clicking the Register button below. Please lead by example and join your fellow members for an enjoyable evening.

The House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 842), a sweeping piece of labor legislation. Among its provisions, the PRO Act as passed by the House would reclassify many insurance and financial professionals as “employees” rather than “independent contractors” under federal labor law. NAIFA argues that such a reclassification will disrupt insurance and financial services business models and limit consumer access to diverse offerings of products, services, and advice.

NAIFA partners with one of the best state legislative tracking services in the country and is now able to offer each state a customized bill tracker (see, for example, NAIFA's bill tracker for New York State). States can either link to the bill tracking site by copying and pasting a web link or by embedding the tracker into their website using html code. 

NAIFA is offering a new membership called the NAIFA 100% Agency program. The new program provides a group membership, a new logo, a promise to be politically active and additional publicity as part of the new membership program.

The new program was rolled out on the January Membership Chairs call.  If you have an agency that is interested, please refer the lead to Dennis Cuccinelli and/or send to recruitment@naifa.org.

NAIFA is pleased to announce that The Fortis Agency, headquartered in Holmdel, NJ at the beautiful Bellworks Complex, has become a 100% NAIFA Agency. Under the new membership program, The Fortis Agency has enrolled all of their advisors as NAIFA members and enrolled them in NAIFA’s grassroots advocacy programs.

NAIFA is pleased to announce that Protecting Every Future, a program of the American Council of Life Insurers, has joined the Financial Security Alliance and will work with NAIFA to tell their stories to policymakers at all levels of government. 

The Insurance and Financial Advisors Political Action Committee (IFAPAC) sponsored by NAIFA seeks to advance the legislative interests of NAIFA members on both the state and federal levels, preserve a favorable governmental climate, and promote the best interests of consumers by supporting the campaigns of carefully selected candidates for elective office. NAIFA’s federal PAC is historically one of the top association PACs in the insurance and financial services sector and has a formal process for vetting candidates.

We've put together a great new resource for you to use in getting to know your freshmen members of Congress. Simply download the .zip file and find your state. If your state has new members of Congress, you will have profile cards on each new member.

Here's an example. Meet Mondaire Jones:

What can you do with this information? Here are a few ideas: 

It’s not just luck that makes NAIFA the leading political advocacy association for insurance and financial professionals in the United States. It takes hard work, a dedicated and informed membership and strong leadership throughout our association chapters. Today’s NAIFA Leadership Blueprint training focused on advocacy to ensure that chapter volunteer leaders have the training and resources they need to empower their states’ NAIFA members and build on NAIFA’s advocacy strength.