METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Carla A. Harris
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Carla A. Harris, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II):
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of September, 2022.
/s/ Carla A. Harris |
Carla A. Harris |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Carlos M. Gutierrez
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Carlos M. Gutierrez, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
● | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011) ;
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
● | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager III);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts; |
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Carlos M. Gutierrez |
Carlos M. Gutierrez |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Catherine Ruane Kinney
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Catherine Ruane Kinney, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security Plan M Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePius®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011 );
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811 -08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Catherine Ruane Kinney |
Catherine Ruane Kinney |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Cheryl Wray Grisé
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Cheryl Wray Grisé, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001 ) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B , Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 28 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Cheryl Wray Grisé |
Cheryl Wray Grisé |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
David Herzog
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, David Herzog, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001 ) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C File M Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ David Herzog |
David Herzog |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Denise Mullen Morrison
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Denise Mullen Morrison, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
● | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA),
Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus®
Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 Metlife Income Security Plansm Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 Metlife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 Metlife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 Metlife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePius®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 Metlife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011 );
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 Metlife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 Metlife Investment Portfolio Architectsm (Standard Version and C Share Option);
● | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and Metlife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFiex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFiex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
● | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
● | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
● | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
● | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
● | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance
Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance
Policies (MetFiex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life
Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium
Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible
Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible
Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible
Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance
Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance
Policies (MetFiex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life
Insurance Policies (MetFiex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium
Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual
Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II):
● | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
● | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
● | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
● | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
● | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
● | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of Sept, 2022.
/s/ Denise Mullen Morrison |
Denise Mullen Morrison |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Diana McKenzie
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Diana McKenzie, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Diana McKenzie |
Diana McKenzie |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Edward Joseph Kelly, Ill
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Edward Joseph Kelly, Ill, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and october 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811 -08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Edward Joseph Kelly, Ill |
Edward Joseph Kelly, Ill |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Gerald Lee Hassell
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Gerald Lee Hassell, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Gerald Lee HasselI |
Gerald Lee HasselI |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
John McCallion
EVP and Chief Financial Officer
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, John McCallion, an EVP and the Chief Financial Officer of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of September, 2022.
/s/ John McCallion |
John McCallion |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Mark Weinberger
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Mark Weinberger, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033- 32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Varible Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811 -08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 30 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Mark Weinberger |
Mark Weinberger |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Michel Khalaf
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Michel Khalaf, President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Michel Khalaf |
Michel Khalaf |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Robert Glenn Hubbard
Chairman and Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Robert Glenn Hubbard, Chairman of the Board and Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D). and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ Robert Glenn Hubbard |
Robert Glenn Hubbard |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Tamara Schock
EVP and Chief Accounting Officer
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Tamara Schock, EVP and Chief Accounting Officer of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011);
File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 lndividual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of September, 2022.
/s/ Tamara Schock |
Tamara Schock |
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
William Earl Kennard
Director
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, William Earl Kennard, a Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York company, do hereby constitute and appoint Heather Harker, Robin Wagner and Lawrence Wolff, as my attorney-in-fact and agent, each of whom may act individually and none of whom is required to act jointly with any of the others, to sign and file on my behalf and to execute and file any instrument or document required to be filed as part of or in connection with or in any way related to, the registration statements to be filed on Forms N-4, N-6, S-6 and S-3 as the case may be (the “Registration Statements”) and any and all amendments thereto filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 pertaining to:
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account E (SEC File No. 811-04001) |
File No. 002-90380 Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (BPPA), Enhanced Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (EPPA), Financial Freedom Account Variable Annuity Contracts;
Preference Plus® Account for Enhanced Contracts (CPPA), Preference Plus® Account Variable Annuity Contracts (APPA) and VestMet;
File No. 333-43970 MetLife Income Security PlanSM Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-52366 Preference Plus Select® Variable Annuity Contracts B, Bonus, C and L Class;
File No. 333-69320 MetLife Asset Builder;
File No. 333-80547 MetLife Settlement Plus®;
File No. 333-83716 MetLife Financial Freedom Select® B, L, C, e and eBonus Class;
File No. 333-122883 Preference Plus® Income Advantage;
File No. 333-122897 Personal lncomePlus®;
File No. 333-153109 Preference Premier ® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered between December 12, 2008 and October 7, 2011) B, B Plus, C, L and R Class;
File No. 333-160722 Zenith Accumulator Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-162586 MetLife Growth and Income;
File No. 333-176654 Preference Premier® Variable Annuity Contracts (offered on and after October 7, 2011); File No. 333-190296 Gold Track Select Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-198314 MetLife Accumulation Annuity;
File No. 333-198448 MetLife Investment Portfolio ArchitectSM (Standard Version and C Share Option);
· | Metropolitan Life Separate Account UL (SEC File No. 811-06025) |
File No. 033-32813 UL II Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 033-47927 Equity Advantage VUL, a Flexible Premium Multifunded Life Insurance Policy and MetLife Equity Advantage VUL;
File No. 033-57320 MetFlex Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy and MetFlex C Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy;
File No. 033-91226 Group Variable Universal Life Insurance Policies;
File No. 333-40161 The Equity Options (Equity Additions and Equity Enricher) Life Insurance Policy Riders;
File No. 333-147508 Equity Advantage VUL Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies;
· | Metropolitan Life Variable Annuity Separate Account II (SEC File No 811-08628) |
File No. 333-138113 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-138115 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract;
File No. 333-161093 Flexible Premium Variable Annuity Contracts;
File No. 333-161094 Flexible Premium Deferred Variable Annuity Contract);
· | New England Life Retirement Investment Account (SEC File No. 811-03285) |
File No. 333-11133 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | New England Variable Annuity Fund I (SEC File No. 811-01930) |
File No. 333-11137 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Paragon Separate Account A (SEC File No. 811-05382) |
File No. 333-133674 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (AFIS);
File No. 333-133699 Group American Plus;
· | Paragon Separate Account B (SEC File No. 811-07534) |
File No. 333-133671 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager C), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Morgan Stanley), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Putnam), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MFS), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager Ill);
File No. 333-133675 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (DWS D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (MetFlex GVUL D II), Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager D), and Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Multi Manager II);
· | Paragon Separate Account C (SEC File No. 811-07982) |
File No. 333-133673 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity C);
File No. 333-133678 Group and Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (Fidelity D);
· | Paragon Separate Account D (SEC File No. 811-08385) |
File No. 333-133672 Individual Variable Life Insurance 50414 (IVUL);
File No. 333-133698 Joint Survivor Variable Universal Life 50415 (JSVUL);
· | Security Equity Separate Account 26 (SEC File No. 811-08888) |
File No. 333-110183 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Security Equity Separate Account 27 (SEC File No. 811-08892) |
File No. 333-110184 Individual Variable Annuity Contracts;
· | Separate Account No. 13S (SEC File No. 811-08938) |
File No. 333-110185 Individual Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policies (LCL2);
and the
· | Registered Fixed Account Option for Gold Track Select |
Fixed Annuity (also marketed as “Strategic Value Annuity”) Filed on Form S-3;
and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in my name, place and stead each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20 day of September, 2022.
/s/ William Earl Kennard |
William Earl Kennard |