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





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

                  For Investors:    Jorge Ramirez
                                    (212) 578-2085


          METLIFE ANNOUNCES NEW $1 BILLION STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAM

NEW YORK, September 25, 2007 - MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that
its board of directors has authorized an additional $1 billion common stock
repurchase program.  This program will begin after the completion of an earlier
$1 billion repurchase program that was announced on February 28, 2007, of which
approximately $240 million currently remains.

The stock repurchases can be made through purchases from the MetLife
Policyholder Trust, in the open market and through privately negotiated
transactions.  The timing of open market and privately negotiated purchases
will be dependent upon market conditions and other corporate considerations.
The stock repurchase program may be modified, extended or terminated by the
board of directors at any time.

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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