Membership Information

Members may be interested to know that the American Legion offers a Paid Up For Life membership. Members interested in this option should know, this is not a discount membership, but the opportunity to pay your dues in full for life based on the annual dues of your post at the time of application and your age. A major advantage of this option is when the cost of dues rise you will not be affected. In effect, you are locking in your dues at the current level. Each Paid-Up-For-Life member receives a permanent plastic card, as well as an annual paper membership card, directly from national, to verify continuing membership in The American Legion. The annual card will be mailed in June or July of each year. Upon request, a replacement card can be provided at no charge to the member. A member must be in good standing to become a Paid-Up-For-Life member...to be in good standing, he/she must have a valid membership card for the current year. The post adjutant must certify that member's good standing before forwarding the application.

The applications for Paid-Up-For-Life membership must be completed and submitted to the post adjutant for verification/certification. The member completes the application and turns it over to the post along with the appropriate payment, the same as if paying annual dues. The post will review and endorse the application, forward it to the department headquarters, and from there it is sent to national for final processing. The PUFL application form can be downloaded in PDF format at this site along with the rate chart.. Members may also take advantage of the Time Payment Plan to purchase a life membership. That application to can be downloaded at this site by clicking the links below. All of these forms can also be obtained from the Post Adjutant.