Public Relations

                                                                   MetLife, Inc.
                                                               One MetLife Plaza
                                                        27-01 Queens Plaza North
For Immediate Release News                            Long Island City, NY 11101

(MetLife(R) Logo)

     Contacts:     For Media:      John Calagna
                                   (212) 578-6252

                   For Investors:  Tracey Dedrick
                                   (212) 578-5140

          METLIFE CONFIRMS FIRST QUARTER 2007 PREFERRED STOCK DIVIDENDS

NEW YORK, March 5, 2007 - MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today confirmed its
previously announced declaration of the first quarter 2007 dividends of
$0.3975000 per share on the company's floating rate non-cumulative preferred
stock, Series A (NYSE: METPrA) and $0.4062500 per share on the company's 6.50%
non-cumulative preferred stock, Series B (NYSE: METPrB). Both dividends will be
payable on March 15, 2007 to shareholders of record as of February 28, 2007.

MetLife, Inc. is a leading provider of insurance and financial services with
operations throughout the United States and the Latin America, Europe and Asia
Pacific regions. Through its domestic and international subsidiaries and
affiliates, MetLife, Inc. reaches more than 70 million customers around the
world and MetLife is the largest life insurer in the United States (based on
life insurance in-force). The MetLife companies offer life insurance, annuities,
auto and home insurance, retail banking and other financial services to
individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement & savings
products and services to corporations and other institutions. For more
information, please visit www.metlife.com.

This release contains statements which constitute forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including statements relating to trends in the operations and financial results
and the business and the products of the company and its subsidiaries, as well
as other statements including words such as "anticipate," "believe," "plan,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend" and other similar expressions. Forward-looking
statements are made based upon management's current expectations and beliefs
concerning future developments and their potential effects on the company. Such
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance.

Actual results may differ materially from those included in the forward-looking
statements as a result of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to,
the following: (i) changes in general economic conditions, including the
performance of financial markets and interest rates; (ii)




heightened competition, including with respect to pricing, entry of new
competitors, the development of new products by new and existing competitors and
for personnel; (iii) investment losses and defaults; (iv) unanticipated changes
in industry trends; (v) catastrophe losses; (vi) ineffectiveness of risk
management policies and procedures; (vii) changes in accounting standards,
practices and/or policies; (viii) changes in assumptions related to deferred
policy acquisition costs, value of business acquired or goodwill; (ix)
discrepancies between actual claims experience and assumptions used in setting
prices for the company's products and establishing the liabilities for the
company's obligations for future policy benefits and claims; (x) discrepancies
between actual experience and assumptions used in establishing liabilities
related to other contingencies or obligations; (xi) adverse results or other
consequences from litigation, arbitration or regulatory investigations; (xii)
downgrades in the company's and its affiliates' claims paying ability, financial
strength or credit ratings; (xiii) regulatory, legislative or tax changes that
may affect the cost of, or demand for, the company's products or services; (xiv)
MetLife, Inc.'s primary reliance, as a holding company, on dividends from its
subsidiaries to meet debt payment obligations and the applicable regulatory
restrictions on the ability of the subsidiaries to pay such dividends; (xv)
deterioration in the experience of the "closed block" established in connection
with the reorganization of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; (xvi) economic,
political, currency and other risks relating to the company's international
operations; (xvii) the effects of business disruption or economic contraction
due to terrorism or other hostilities; (xviii) the company's ability to identify
and consummate on successful terms any future acquisitions, and to successfully
integrate acquired businesses with minimal disruption; and (xix) other risks and
uncertainties described from time to time in MetLife, Inc.'s filings with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company specifically disclaims any
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a
result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

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