National Life Group
Experience... life, growth, community - all aspects of life that we value at National Life Group."
Vermont Roots
National Life Group is a Fortune 1000 company that serves more than 850,000 customers and employs roughly 900 employees, with most located at its home office in Montpelier, Vermont. Group companies also maintain offices in Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia. The Group is made up of several affiliates:
- Its flagship company, National Life Insurance Company - founded in Montpelier in 1848
- Life Insurance Company of the Southwest in Dallas, Texas
- Sentinel Investments
- Equity Services, Inc.
- National Retirement Plan Advisors
National Life Insurance Company was not only one of the first mutual life insurance companies in the United States, but it was also the first with a national vision.
Employee Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Group life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Adoption assistance
- Near-site discounted day care
- Pension plan & 401(k) plan
- Free, no-obligation financial consultation
- Development opportunities, including: tuition reimbursement, on-site and off-site training programs, internal job posting program, LOMA's Fellowship Life Management Institute (FLMI) courses, and chartered life underwriter (CLU) courses
- Paid time off
- Employee appreciation events
- Fitness/wellness program
- On-site fitness center, walking trails and par course
- Discounts on events, trips and opportunities
- On-site cafeteria - operated and staffed by New England Culinary Institute and its students
- Many green initiatives and incentives
Montpelier's 'Green' Campus
- An array of 418 rooftop solar panels now helps power National Life's Montpelier headquarters. The solar thermal system will supply 50 percent of the hot water used in the facility.
- Each week National Life recycles 750 pounds of cardboard, diverts 4,500 pounds of shredded office paper through composting and reuse as animal bedding, and composts 2,500 pounds of food waste.
- In 2008, National Life updated 6,026 light fixtures to High Performance T8 lighting systems, which is expected to cut their annual energy use by 337,700 kwh.
- In 2008, they recycled 68 percent of their waste.
- Incentives for those who walk, bike, carpool, or take the bus to work (over 22 percent of employees participated in the program during 2008).
Community Giving
In 2008, National Life Group and the National Life Group Charitable Foundation donated to more than 100 nonprofit organizations that provide Vermonters with homes, heat, health, education, the arts and recreation.
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