The Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education (LIFE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping consumers make smart insurance decisions to safeguard their families’ financial futures. The main topics we address in our educational efforts are life, disability, long-term care and health insurance. Our goal is to help consumers better understand these products and where they fit within their overall financial plans. LIFE also seeks to remind people of the important role insurance professionals perform in helping families, businesses, and individuals find the insurance products that best fit their needs. LIFE does not endorse any product, company or insurance advisor. Our only interest is seeing that consumers get the coverage they need to protect themselves and their loved ones.

To educate the public, LIFE employs a wide range of communications tactics including advertising, consumer media outreach, educational programs in high schools and colleges, public service announcements, informational flyers and videos, and a growing array of electronic communications. In addition, LIFE coordinates three industry-wide awareness campaigns: Insure Your Love (observed in January/February) Life Insurance Awareness Month (observed in September) and Disability Insurance Awareness Month (observed in May).
 

LIFE was formed in 1994 by seven leading insurance producer organizations, which recognized the need to better educate the public about important insurance planning topics. To help us deliver our educational messages, LIFE receives financial support from more than 140 of the nation’s leading insurance and financial services organizations.

LIFE is governed by a 18-member Board of Directors, comprised of representatives of six of the industry’s leading producer organizations.