Related Party Transactions	12 Months Ended
Related Party Transactions	Dec. 31, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
Related Party Transactions	14. Related Party Transactions The Company has various existing arrangements with its Brighthouse Financial affiliates and had previous arrangements with MetLife for services necessary to conduct its activities. Certain of the MetLife services have continued, however, MetLife ceased to be a related party in June 2018. See Note 11 for amounts related to continuing transition services. The Company has related party reinsurance, debt and equity transactions (see Notes 5, 9 and 10). Other material arrangements between the Company and its related parties not disclosed elsewhere are as follows: Shared Services and Overhead Allocations Brighthouse Services currently provides the Company certain services which include, but are not limited to, treasury, financial planning and analysis, legal, human resources, tax planning, internal audit, financial reporting and information technology. When specific identification to a particular legal entity and/or product is not practicable, an allocation methodology based on various performance measures or activity-based costing, such as sales, new policies/contracts issued, reserves, and in-force policy counts is used. The bases for such charges are modified and adjusted by management when necessary or appropriate to reflect fairly and equitably the actual incidence of cost incurred by the Company and/or affiliate. Management believes that the methods used to allocate expenses under these arrangements are reasonable. Revenues received from an affiliate related to these agreements, recorded in universal life and investment-type product policy fees, were $235 million, $213 million and $220 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Costs incurred under these arrangements were $1.0 billion, $1.1 billion and $1.1 billion for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and were recorded in other expenses. Included in these costs were those incurred related to the establishment of services and infrastructure to replace those previously provided by MetLife. The Company incurred costs of $0, $88 million and $21 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company has been charged a fee to reflect the value of the available infrastructure and services provided by these costs. While management believes the method used to allocate expenses under this arrangement has been reasonable, the allocated expenses may not have been indicative of those of a standalone entity. These establishment costs were fully allocated as of December 31, 2020. The Company had net receivables from/(payables to) affiliates, related to the items discussed above, of ($182) million and ($21) million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Broker-Dealer Transactions The related party expense for the Company was commissions paid on the sale of variable products and passed through to the broker-dealer affiliate. The related party revenue for the Company was fee income passed through the broker-dealer affiliate from trusts and mutual funds whose shares serve as investment options of policyholders of the Company. Fee income received related to these transactions and recorded in other revenues was $224 million, $200 million and $205 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Commission expenses incurred related to these transactions and recorded in other expenses was $1.0 billion, $858 million and $815 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company also had related party fee income receivables of $19 million and $18 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.