Advocacy in action blog

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has updated its draft of the Annuity Best Interest Regulatory Guidance and Considerations to reflect suggestions made by NAIFA and coalition partners. In a new letter to the NAIC, which NAIFA signed, the groups state their support for the updated guidance and suggest additional edits to to the draft.

NAIFA CEO Kevin Mayeux, CAE, released the following statement in response to the Urban Institute report, “Challenges of Choice in Medicare: The Role of Agents and Brokers in a Public Program,” released today:

Mark your calendar for May 18–19, 2026, when NAIFA members will gather in Washington, D.C. for the premier grassroots advocacy event for financial professionals: the Congressional Conference. This signature event is central to NAIFA’s mission, uniting members from across the country to advocate for their businesses, clients, and the insurance and financial services industry.

NAIFA members across the country during August and early September met face-to-face with lawmakers in their home districts to ensure the voices of Main Street Americans are represented in critical policy conversations. These in-district visits are a cornerstone of NAIFA’s grassroots advocacy, strengthening relationships with legislators while highlighting the essential role financial professionals play in helping families and businesses achieve financial security.

NAIFA CEO Kevin Mayeux, CAE, issued the following statement on the Department of Labor’s announcement that it will rescind the federal rule on independent contractor classification:

New guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will expand consumer access to affordable catastrophic healthcare policies. NAIFA has long advocated for access to affordable catastrophic health plan options.

NAIFA has raised concerns over a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy to automatically log health care consumers out of their federally facilitated marketplace accounts  after 30 minutes of inactivity. Proposed as a security measure, the time limit “could unintentionally harm consumer access to health insurance coverage and impede the ability of licensed professionals to effectively serve their clients,” NAIFA President Doug Massey wrote in a letter to policymakers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented a new security procedure on Friday, August 29, that will require agents and brokers to reconnect their CMS Enterprise Portal Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM) account credentials after 30 minutes of inactivity.

NAIFA members across the country are taking grassroots advocacy directly to home districts, meeting face-to-face to share the priorities of Main Street Americans and the financial professionals who serve them. Recent in-district meetings brought NAIFA members together with key lawmakers and their staff in South Carolina, California, Tennessee, and Montana.

NAIFA-New Jersey Grassroots Involvement Chair Jill Van Nostrand asked the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to withdraw a proposed rule that would risk misclassifying thousands of independent contractors in the state, including insurance producers and financial advisors, as employees under state labor law. In a comment letter she submitted on behalf of NAIFA-New Jersey, Van Nostrand wrote that the proposal ignores decades of legal precedent and places unnecessary burdens on highly regulated professionals who are already held to strict compliance standards.