Discover the Game-Changing Benefits Designed to Evolve with Your Life—Are You Ready to Join?
Ever wonder why independence in work often feels like choosing between a thrilling high-wire act and a safety net that’s missing? That’s exactly the conundrum freelancers face every day — juggling flexibility with the security we all crave. But here’s the kicker: Freelancers Union is rolling up their sleeves, crafting a fresh portable benefits program designed to flip this script, and guess what? They want your two cents to make it truly work. Since the Affordable Care Act subsidies slipped away, getting decent healthcare has become a steep uphill climb for many of us flying solo in the gig economy. Imagine a world where your benefits—like health insurance and paid time off—travel with you from gig to gig, stacking up like little victories on your personal career scoreboard. Sounds like a dream? It just might be on the horizon — but only if these plans are built with real freelancers’ voices front and center. Ready to shape this future? LEARN MORE.
As an independent worker, you shouldn’t have to choose between flexibility and security. Freelancers Union is designing a new portable benefits program, and we need your input to get it right.
We know that in the months following the expiration of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, access to healthcare has narrowed dramatically, with basic plans out of reach for many freelancers. The demand for flexible healthcare will only continue to grow, particularly as more and more workers across the country go independent.
New portable benefits proposals seek to remediate this, clearing barriers for clients to disperse money into an independent worker’s account to use for healthcare and other benefits like time off. These accounts would then stay with the worker throughout the rest of their gigs, accumulating money from different sources, and as such are known as portable benefits.
This could have enormous potential for freelancers who struggle to build a safety net — but they must be designed with workers’ needs put first.
Take our survey to share your experiences with health insurance, retirement savings, and other benefits, building on the previous survey we circulated at the end of 2025. Your answers will directly shape a solution designed by freelancers, for freelancers.
Interested in going deeper? You can opt in for a follow-up interview at the end of the survey.
