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New CE course Requirement: Beginning with compliance cycles ending January 31, 2022 and thereafter, licensed agents with L,L/H,L/H/A, H ,P&C and Customer Service licenses must complete a 4 credit course on the topic titled, 4-Hour Update course. If you have more than one license you only need to do the update course in one of the licenses and it will take care of all of them. You can choose the 4 hour update course alone or we have it combined with 16 elective hours for a total of 20.

** New CE course requirement: Beginning on January 1,2024 Florida agents that sell Annuities are required to take a 4 hour “Best Interest” Annuity Training course. Agent’s have until July 1,2024 to complete this course. If they do not they will be unable to sell any annuities. If you do not sell annuities you are not required to take this course.

We have the LTC Partnership Plans, 4 credit hour requirement approved by the state and ClearCert.ClearCert is a national clearing house assisting your company to verify this course meets the federal requirement.

We also have the initial 8 hour Federal Long-Term Care course. It also gives you 20 Florida hours. It is also approved by ClearCert.

Course Completion: Licensed agents can complete their correspondence/paper course exam at their home or office. Monitored exam site are longer required.

Price Per Agent Includes: Course, grading, certificate of completion and reporting those earned credits to the state.

Credit Requirement: All new agents must complete 24 continuing education credits every 2 years. After an agent has completed 6 or more years from the beginning of their compliance period their credits reduce to 20 credits. To verify courses which are approved, visit the state web site for approved courses www.fldfs.com.

Certificate of Completion: We report earned continuing education credits to the state every Friday. This is part of your course fees. Students wanting expedited service/reporting of credits, within 2 business days, excluding Sundays, can pay a $10 fee for service. Please call customer service for this option 800.639.4056.

Carryover of CE Credits: A maximum of 24 continuing education credits may be carried over to the next compliance period.

State Information: These courses have been approved by the Florida Department of Financial Services for insurance continuing education credit. All of our approved courses are classified as intermediate.

Course Repetition: Licensed agents may not repeat the same course with the same provider within a 3 year period.

Richards Education Service, Inc. provides the above information to insurance agents and brokers. Reasonable efforts have been made to insure the continuing education information is accurate and complete. Richards Education Service, Inc. , nor its employees warrant or represent this information as accurate and current. The above information is subject to change by the state without notification.

Online Course Pricing Per Agent: We charge $50.00 for up to 24 continuing education credits and $1.50 per credit after that. Online Courses: Students can download or view the study guide and take exam online.

Students may take the exam as many times as they need to pass.

Paper/Correspondence Courses: We mail the study guide and test materials to your home or business.

Note: After choosing the 4-hour update course that fits your license, you may select any CE course we have if you need more hours to complete your compliance. Any excess hours will be carried over to your next compliance period.

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