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Independent fiduciary research · Public DOL Form 5500 data

Is your benefits broker overpaid?

We pull your company's most recent Form 5500 filing and surface what a fiduciary review would flag — broker compensation percentile, disclosure gaps, stop-loss adequacy. Free. No login. 60 seconds.

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Sample audit — Form 5500 (2025)EIN 84-•••••12
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Meridian Fabrication Co.Fiduciary Fitness Score
0Needs review100
Broker compensation percentileP88 · HIGHSched. A, Pt I
Schedule C provider disclosurePARTIALSched. C
Stop-loss adequacyPASSSched. A, Pt III
Filing currencyCURRENTEFAST2
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What your audit covers

Four things a fiduciary review would look at first.

Fiduciary Fitness Score

A 0–100 composite: broker compensation, Schedule A and C disclosure clarity, stop-loss adequacy, filing currency, and plan-disclosure breadth.

Broker comp percentile

Your filed broker compensation benchmarked against same-size and same-industry peers, with disclosure-rate context.

Plain-English findings

The things a fiduciary review would flag, each cited line-by-line against your public Form 5500.

Methodology & sources

Every claim traceable to a public-data citation. We publish our scoring weights.

Why now

The fiduciary spotlight on broker compensation has never been brighter.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 expanded fee-disclosure obligations for group health plans, and the DOL has signaled health-plan fiduciary cases are an enforcement priority through 2026.

Meanwhile, plaintiff-side ERISA cases against named plan fiduciaries — Lewandowski v. Johnson & Johnson, Navarro v. Wells Fargo, the JPMorgan PBM suit — are forcing CFOs to ask a question they've rarely asked: does my filing hold up to a fiduciary review?

BenefitsLedger answers it for free, in 60 seconds, using only the data your plan already filed publicly with the U.S. Department of Labor.

How it works

Three steps. No login. No upsell.

01Find your plan

Type your company name. We match it against the DOL Form 5500 corpus we maintain — the same public dataset BrightScope, FreeERISA, and Judy Diamond use.

02Read your audit

A 0–100 fiduciary fitness score, a per-finding breakdown, and citations to the exact Schedule line each claim comes from. No fluff.

03Decide what to do

Print it, forward it to your CFO, take it to your broker — or book a free 15-minute walkthrough with a specialist.

Public data only

Every number comes from a Form 5500 filing your plan submitted to EBSA. Verifiable line-by-line.

Independent research

Not a broker. Not a carrier. Not the DOL. We publish our scoring methodology and every source citation.

Honest disclosure

We may receive compensation from partner companies you choose to engage after an audit. It never influences the analysis or scoring.

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