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25% Off the Liability Part of Your Auto Premium — and Since August 2026 You Apply Once, Not Every Year

A 25% discount on the liability portion of an auto insurance premium is available to active-duty personnel based in Louisiana, military reservists based in Louisiana, and members of the Louisiana Army National Guard or Louisiana Air National Guard. Bulletin 2026-11, issued on 4 August 2026, replaced the annual re-application with a single one-off application. Insurers may also offer it voluntarily to veterans rated 50% or more and to retirees.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A 25% discount on the liability portion of an auto insurance premium is available to active-duty personnel based in Louisiana, military reservists based in Louisiana, and members of the Louisiana Army National Guard or Louisiana Air National Guard. Bulletin 2026-11, issued on 4 August 2026, replaced the annual re-application with a single one-off application. Insurers may also offer it voluntarily to veterans rated 50% or more and to retirees.

What it's worth: 25% off the liability portion of a Louisiana auto policy

  • The 25% comes off the LIABILITY portion of the premium only. Collision, comprehensive and the other coverages are untouched, so the saving is well below 25% of the total bill.
  • No dollar amount is claimed because the premium varies by driver, vehicle and parish. The weight above is an order-of-magnitude placeholder, not a quote.
  • For the three serving categories the discount is what the law provides for. For veterans and retirees it is voluntary — the insurer decides — so it cannot be assumed for them at all.

Who is entitled to it

  • The discount attaches to a policy covering vehicles owned by the military personnel themselves.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Download the Louisiana Application Form for Military Discount from the Department of Insurance, complete and sign it, and send it to your agent or insurer with the eligibility documents the form lists.
  2. 2Bring the right proof for your category. Active-duty personnel and reservists must supply current military orders showing assignment to a duty station in Louisiana. Guard members must supply a letter from their commander on official unit letterhead verifying membership.
  3. 3If you dropped out of the discount because of the annual paperwork, go back. Bulletin 2026-11 changed the regulation so that eligible service members submit the form ONCE instead of every year, and the Commissioner said in terms that the change was made to bring more members in.
  4. 4If you are a veteran or a retiree, ask rather than apply blind. Insurers MAY voluntarily extend the discount to veterans with a VA rating of 50% or more and to retired members of the armed forces, the National Guard and the state’s Army and Air National Guard — the department’s wording is that it is at the carrier’s discretion.
  5. 5Check what it is being applied to on the declarations page. It is 25% of the liability premium, so the figure to look for is a reduction in that line rather than in the total.
  6. 6If the carrier refuses or cannot explain the treatment, the Department of Insurance runs an Office of Consumer Advocacy on 225-219-4775.
Form
Louisiana Application Form for Military Discount, submitted to your agent or insurer
File with
Your auto insurance agent or insurance company
Documents you will need
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No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThis is repeatedly written up as "25% off auto insurance for veterans". Two things are wrong with that. It is 25% of the LIABILITY portion of the premium, not of the whole policy. And for veterans and retirees it is not a mandate at all — both the insurance regulator and the veterans department describe it as voluntary, at the carrier’s discretion. The people the discount is actually written for are active-duty personnel and reservists based in this state and members of the state’s Army and Air National Guard.
Worth knowingThe annual re-application was quietly costing people the discount, and the regulator said so. Bulletin 2026-11, issued on 4 August 2026, changed the process to a single submission, with the stated intent of getting more service members to take it up. Anyone who let it lapse in an earlier year should re-file rather than assume they are still on it.
Worth knowingThe discount is older than it looks — it was established by Act 770 of the 2004 Regular Legislative Session. What changed this month is the application mechanics, not the entitlement or the percentage.
Known gapBulletin 2026-11 and Bulletin 2023-04 could not be read. Both are served as PDF downloads from a host that returns 403 to a direct fetch, and the press release is the only page that opened. So the precise statutory citation the bulletins rely on, the definition of "based in Louisiana", and whether the one-time application survives a change of insurer are all unverified.

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