Appointments – Renewals   The Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) will provide electronic appointment renewal processing with National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR).   The renewal invoice list will be generated and available on the website beginning March 14, 2008. The invoices will not be displayed on the NIPR website after May 31, 2008. Appointments added between January 1 and March 9 will not need to be renewed this year. All terminations will need to be posted on NIPR's PDB by Friday, March 6, 2008 when the renewal invoices are created. Transactions received after March 6 will be held until May 31 but will retain the effective date as requested. The NIPR website is: nipr.com.   The costs involved with this process are: State Fees March 14 to May 31  $25.00/LOA/Appointment  NIPR Processing Fees 1 appointment to 100 appointments    $1.00 invoice   101 appointments to 2999 appointments   $5.00 invoice 3000 or more appointments $10.00 invoice   Payment Method Fees Credit Cards 3.5% of invoice amount processing fee   Visa, MasterCard or American Express   Paper Check $50.00 check processing fee Electronic Check No processing fee A few banks or credit unions may not participate in electronic check services. If your bank needs a pre-authorization to use this electronic check service you will need to provide your financial institution with this information: NIPR ACH-9098504041. Electronic check payments must be made by April 21 to allow bank processing time.  The option to use the electronic check payment will not be available after this date. NIPR processing and credit card fees are not refundable.   The process after March 14, 2008 when the electronic invoices are on the website is: On the Internet, go to nipr.com Follow the links to company appointment renewals and sign-in using your company identifiers: company CoCode, FEIN, and/or company name.  Your electronic appointment renewal will be displayed. You can Print/Pay the Invoice; View the report of appointment renewals; Print the Report; Download the Report as text (delimited); and Download the Report as XML.  If you are paying by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express) the process will be entirely electronic. An appropriate receipt will be displayed for you to print off and file.  If you are sending in a paper check, print off the one page invoice and send it to the address on the invoice along with the check payable to NIPR. If you do not include the invoice, payment will be delayed in being processed. Your returned check will be your receipt.  Help screens and NIPR Customer Support are available to guide you through the process.  If you have any questions regarding this appointment renewal process, contact: NIPR Customer Service at (816) 783-8468 or customerservice@nipr.com  Zadie Bowles, Licensing Manager at (202) 442-7819 or zadie.bowles@dc.gov  LuCynthia Jordan, Licensing Specialist at (202) 442-7813 or lucynthia.Jordan@dc.gov Sheila Johnson-Parker, Licensing Specialist at (202) 442-7795 or sheila.parker@dc.gov Willie Hicks, Licensing Specialist at (202) 442-7814 or willie.hicks@dc.gov.