Exhibit 99.2

               Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer
                         and Principal Financial Officer
       Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

I, Edward J. Parry, III, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Allmerica
Financial Corporation, state and attest that:

     (1)  To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
          reports of Allmerica Financial Corporation, and, except as corrected
          or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

          o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and

          o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).

     (2)  I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
          Audit Committee.

     (3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
          before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

          o    2001 Annual Report on Form 10-K of Allmerica Financial
               Corporation;

          o    all reports of Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of Allmerica Financial Corporation
               filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form
               10-K identified above; and

          o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


/s/ Edward J. Parry, III                              Subscribed and sworn to
Edward J. Parry, III                                  before me this 14th day of
Date:  August 14, 2002                                August 2002.

                                                      /s/ Linda L. Luperchio
                                                      Notary Public
                                                      My Commission Expires:
                                                      January 7, 2005