In relation to Santa’s Naughty or Good listing, Jeff Jackson is attempting very onerous to boost his standing to “good.” Jackson is probably the most senior government of the Nationwide Flood Insurance coverage Program (NFIP.) Jackson prolonged the deadline for policyholders to file their Hurricane Helene or Milton flood proofs of loss to 180 days.
The FEMA web site lists the next about Jeff Jackson:
Jeff Jackson at the moment serves because the Performing Assistant Administrator of the Federal Insurance coverage Directorate and the interim senior government of the Nationwide Flood Insurance coverage Program (NFIP) inside FEMA’s Workplace of Resilience.
On this function Jeff leads the every day operations of the NFIP, the world’s largest single-peril insurance coverage supplier, which serves 4.7 million policyholders nationwide and generates over $3.5 billion in annual income.
Underneath Jeff’s management, the group is enhancing the NFIP’s buyer expertise and utilizing modern approaches that provide policyholders extra alternative, and a program that aligns with the personal insurance coverage market.
Jeff performed an instrumental function in FEMA’s 2021 implementation of the NFIP’s up to date score method. The modifications corrected longstanding pricing inequities effecting practically a million policyholders by eliminating decrease danger, decrease worth houses subsidizing larger danger, larger worth houses. He continues to passionately advocate for added NFIP reforms together with the necessity for a way examined affordability plan to assist tackle pricing obstacles for a lot of uninsured People.
Previous to his present function, Jeff has held a number of key FEMA management positions together with Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Federal Insurance coverage Directorate since 2020, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Nationwide Preparedness Directorate, Deputy Chief Part Procurement Officer, the place he oversaw a dramatic enhance in procurement demand from $1.6 billion in FY16 to $4.1 billion in Fiscal Yr 2018.
I’d counsel that readers take heed to Jeff Jackson speak about his ideas about reforming the NFIP:
His ideas appear progressive. The issue is that a number of of those reforms require Congress to move new laws, and that doesn’t appear potential anytime quickly.
Thought For The Day
“Have a objective in life. When water is in all places, it’s a flood, however whether it is in between banks, it’s a river.”
—Sri Sri Ravi Shankar