Farmers offers a real insurance discount for teachers, but only through the American Federation of Teachers, not to the general public. It’s called GroupSelect, and it’s a union-brokered program rather than something any teacher can walk in and request.
Farmers Insurance is one of the largest home and auto insurers in the country, selling both through independent agents and directly online. The GroupSelect program is Farmers’ side of a partnership with AFT, one of the two major national teachers’ unions, and it’s built the way most union-brokered insurance programs are: a private rate negotiated for members, not published for anyone to see.
How To Get The Farmers Teacher Discount
You have to be a paying AFT member to access GroupSelect. Multiple AFT state affiliate pages and AFT’s own member-benefits materials confirm the program is real and covers auto, home, and rental insurance, and independent sources tracking it consistently cite average savings in the 23 to 25 percent range, though that figure comes from AFT-affiliated sources describing the program rather than from a number Farmers publishes directly on its own site. If you’re already an AFT member, the fastest way in is through AFT’s own member-benefits portal rather than approaching Farmers directly as a non-member, since GroupSelect isn’t a retail product Farmers sells at large.
If You’re Not In AFT
This one specifically doesn’t work for non-members, and there’s no workaround. If you’re a member of the NEA instead, the equivalent program in this roundup runs through Travelers, not Farmers, since the two unions partner with different insurers. See the full breakdown of what AFT membership actually includes for the rest of what comes with joining, since this insurance discount is one piece of a much larger member-benefits package that also covers legal services, free life insurance, and travel discounts.
Q&A
Q: Is 23-25% a guaranteed savings figure?
A: No. It’s an average cited by AFT-affiliated sources, not a number Farmers itself commits to for every policyholder, and your own rate depends on your state, driving record, and coverage choices.
Q: Can substitute or retired AFT members use GroupSelect too?
A: AFT’s own materials don’t spell out membership-tier restrictions for this specific benefit, so confirm your own membership category qualifies through AFT’s member-benefits portal.
Q: Does this cover renters insurance too, not just auto and home?
A: Yes, AFT’s own description of the program names rental insurance alongside auto and home.
Q: What if I’m NEA instead of AFT?
A: NEA members have their own union-brokered program through Travelers, covered separately in this roundup, with different terms and a different insurer entirely.
Q: Do retired AFT members still count as members for this purpose?
A: AFT runs a retiree membership category distinct from active dues-paying membership, so confirm your specific status through AFT’s own member-benefits portal before assuming eligibility carries over.
More Information:
Confirmed through AFT’s own member-benefits ecosystem and multiple AFT state affiliate pages naming GroupSelect and Farmers by name; the average-savings figure is corroborated across several AFT-affiliated sources rather than stated on Farmers’ own site directly.
