Raw Form 5500 data is publicly available. But downloading filings, cleaning bad attribution, and building your own models is not a strategy. See what group benefits intelligence looks like when someone has already done that work for you.
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Free ERISA data is a starting point, not a platform. Here is what you get when the hard work of cleaning, enriching, and modeling that data has already been done.
The DOL gives you access to filings. Benefeature gives you a platform built to turn those filings into decisions you can act on today.
The DOL gives you access to filings. Benefeature gives you a platform built to turn those filings into decisions you can act on today.
Free ERISA filings often list centralized filing hubs as the broker of record. Benefeature resolves attribution to the producing office so you know who actually holds the relationship.
Free ERISA filings often list centralized filing hubs as the broker of record. Benefeature resolves attribution to the producing office so you know who actually holds the relationship.
Free filings report total plan premiums. Benefeature breaks them down by product line and flags each as very low, low, normal, high, or very high relative to peer group plans.
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Free filings report total plan premiums. Benefeature breaks them down by product line and flags each as very low, low, normal, high, or very high relative to peer group plans.
Form 5500 filings come in throughout the year as employers file at different times. Benefeature processes new data monthly so your intelligence reflects the current market.
Form 5500 filings come in throughout the year as employers file at different times. Benefeature processes new data monthly so your intelligence reflects the current market.
The DOL stores retirement and benefits filings separately. Benefeature integrates both, surfacing cross-sell signals across over 794,000 retirement plans.
The DOL stores retirement and benefits filings separately. Benefeature integrates both, surfacing cross-sell signals across over 794,000 retirement plans.
Parsing raw filings is not a sales workflow. Benefeature gives teams searchable profiles, territory management, Glassdoor benefit ratings, and exportable data ready for the field.
Parsing raw filings is not a sales workflow. Benefeature gives teams searchable profiles, territory management, Glassdoor benefit ratings, and exportable data ready for the field.
How Benefeature compares to relying on free ERISA data from the DOL
Cleaned, enriched, and enriched for use
Raw regulatory filings as submitted
Modern searchable platform with filters and profiles
Basic EIN or plan name search, PDF/XML output
Per-product premium with high/low flags by peer group
Total plan premium only, no product breakdown
Resolved to the producing office, filing hubs removed
As-filed, filing hubs often listed as broker of record
Email, phone, and LinkedIn for broker agents
Not available
Included where data is available, retirement data fills gaps
Limited — groups under 100 lives not required to report insurance
Integrated with benefits data for cross-sell visibility
Available separately via different search tools, not linked
Employer benefit ratings, reviews, and aggregate book scores
Not available
Monthly refreshes pulling in new filings continuously
Depends on DOL processing, may lag several months
Custom territory tools built around your market
Not available
Premium flags, opportunity signals, and market scoring
None — raw data requires user interpretation
Clean exports with insights included
Raw CSV or XML downloads
Cleaned, enriched, and enriched for use
Raw regulatory filings as submitted
Modern searchable platform with filters and profiles
Basic EIN or plan name search, PDF/XML output
Per-product premium with high/low flags by peer group
Total plan premium only, no product breakdown
Resolved to the producing office, filing hubs removed
As-filed, filing hubs often listed as broker of record
Email, phone, and LinkedIn for broker agents
Not available
Included where data is available, retirement data fills gaps
Limited — groups under 100 lives not required to report insurance
Integrated with benefits data for cross-sell visibility
Available separately via different search tools, not linked
Employer benefit ratings, reviews, and aggregate book scores
Not available
Monthly refreshes pulling in new filings continuously
Depends on DOL processing, may lag several months
Custom territory tools built around your market
Not available
Premium flags, opportunity signals, and market scoring
None — raw data requires user interpretation
Clean exports with insights included
Raw CSV or XML downloads
Join 1,000+ benefit professionals who trust Benefeature. Get intelligence, not just raw data.
Free ERISA data tells you what was filed. Benefeature tells you what to do next.
The raw data is out there. The question is whether you have the platform to turn it into a competitive advantage before your competitors do.
