SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                         POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 12
                     TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 33-48701

                      ON FORM S-2 TO FORM S-1 ON FORM S-2

                                      Under

                           The Securities Act of 1933

                           IDS Life Insurance Company
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               (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

                                    Minnesota
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         (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)


                                   41-0823832
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                      (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

                70100 AXP Financial Center, Minneapolis, MN 55474
                                 (800) 862-7919
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               (Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                 including area code, of registrant's principal
                               executive offices)

                               Mary Ellyn Minenko
                           IDS Life Insurance Company
             50607 AXP Financial Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55474
                                 (612) 671-3678
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            (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)

It is proposed that this filing become effective on May 1, 2003.

If any of the  securities  being  registered on this Form are to be offered on a
delayed or continuous  basis  pursuant to Rule 415 under the  Securities  Act of
1933, check the following box. [X]





                                                 Calculation of Registration Fee

                                                                                             

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                                                                                 Proposed maximum
Title of each class of securities     Amount to be      Proposed maximum         aggregate offering      Amount of
to be registered                      registered        offering price per unit  price                   registration fee
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Interests in the Fixed Account of           N/A
the Group, Unallocated Deferred
Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity
Contracts for Qualified Retirement
Plans



                                     PART I.

                       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

The prospectus for IDS Life Group Variable  Annuity  Contract is incorporated by
reference  from  Part  A of  Post-Effective  Amendment  No.  13 to  Registration
Statement No. 33-47302, filed on or about April 23, 2003.



                                    PART II.

                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

         The expenses of the issuance and  distribution  of the interests in the
Fixed Account of the Contract to be registered,  other than commissions on sales
of the Contracts, are to be borne by the registrant.

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

The amended and restated By-Laws of the depositor provide that the depositor
will indemnify, to the fullest extent now or hereafter provided for or permitted
by law, each person involved in, or made or threatened to be made a party to,
any action, suit, claim or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, including any
investigative, administrative, legislative, or other proceeding, and including
any action by or in the right of the depositor or any other corporation, or any
partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise
(any such entity, other than the depositor, being hereinafter referred to as an
"Enterprise"), and including appeals therein (any such action or process being
hereinafter referred to as a "Proceeding"), by reason of the fact that such
person, such person's testator or intestate (i) is or was a director or officer
of the depositor, or (ii) is or was serving, at the request of the depositor, as
a director, officer, or in any other capacity, or any other Enterprise, against
any and all judgments, amounts paid in settlement, and expenses, including
attorney's fees, actually and reasonably incurred as a result of or in
connection with any Proceeding, except as provided below.

No indemnification will be made to or on behalf of any such person if a judgment
or other final adjudication adverse to such person establishes that such
person's acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and
deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated,
or that such person personally gained in fact a financial profit or other
advantage to which such person was not legally entitled. In addition, no
indemnification will be made with respect to any Proceeding initiated by any
such person against the depositor, or a director or officer of the depositor,
other than to enforce the terms of this indemnification provision, unless such
Proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the depositor. Further,
no indemnification will be made with respect to any settlement or compromise of
any Proceeding unless and until the depositor has consented to such settlement
or compromise.

The depositor may, from time to time, with the approval of the Board of
Directors, and to the extent authorized, grant rights to indemnification, and to
the advancement of expenses, to any employee or agent of the depositor or to any
person serving at the request of the depositor as a director or officer, or in
any other capacity, of any other Enterprise, to the fullest extent of the
provisions with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of
directors and officers of the depositor.

Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of
1933 (the "Act") may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the depositor or the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities
and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim
for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


Item 16. Exhibits

1.-2.    Not applicable.

3.1      Copy of Certificate  of  Incorporation  of IDS Life Insurance  Company
         dated  July  23,  1957,  filed   electronically   as  Exhibit  3.1  to
         Post-Effective  Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement No. 33-48701
         is incorporated by reference.

3.2      Copy of Amended and Restated By-laws of IDS Life Insurance Company,
         filed electronically as Exhibit 6.2 to Post-Effective Amendment No. 13
         to Registration Statement No. 33-47302 is incorporated by reference.

4.       Form of Group Deferred  Variable Annuity Contract,  Form 34660,  filed
         electronically  as Exhibit 4.1 to  Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 2 to
         Registration Statement No. 33-48701 is incorporated by reference.

5.       Opinion of Counsel  regarding  legality  of  Contracts  is filed
         electronically herewith.

6.-20.   Not applicable.

21.      List  of  Subsidiaries,   filed   electronically   as  Exhibit  22  to
         Post-Effective  Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement No. 33-48701
         is incorporated by reference.

22.      Not applicable.

23.      Consent of Independent Auditors is filed electronically herewith.

24.1     Power of Attorney to sign Amendments to this  Registration  Statement,
         dated  April  9,  2002,   filed   electronically   as  Exhibit  24  to
         Post-Effective Amendment No. 11 to Registration Statement No. 33-48701
         is incorporated by reference.

24.2     Power of Attorney to sign Amendments to this  Registration  Statement,
         dated Sept. 11, 2002, is filed electronically herewith.

24.3     Power of Attorney to sign Amendments to this  Registration  Statement,
         dated April 16, 2003, is filed electronically herewith.

25.-27.  Not applicable.



Item 17. Undertakings

Registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1)      To file,  during any period in which offers or sales are being
                  made,  a   post-effective   amendment  to  this   registration
                  statement:

         (i)      To include any  prospectus  required by section  10(a)(3) of
                  the Securities Act of 1933,

         (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
                  the effective date of the registration  statement (or the most
                  recent post-effective amendment thereof which, individually or
                  in  the  aggregate,  represent  a  fundamental  change  in the
                  information set forth in the registration statement,

         (iii)    To include any material  information  with respect to the plan
                  of distribution  not previously  disclosed in the registration
                  statement or any material  change to such  information  in the
                  registration statement,

         (2)      That, for the purpose of determining  any liability  under the
                  Securities  Act of 1933,  each such  post-effective  amendment
                  shall be deemed a new registration  statement  relating to the
                  securities   offered   therein,   and  the  offering  of  such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof,

         (3)      that  all  post-effective  amendments  will  comply  with  the
                  applicable  forms,  rules and regulations of the Commission in
                  effect at the time such  post-effective  amendments are filed,
                  and

         (4)      To  remove  from  registration  by means  of a  post-effective
                  amendment any of the securities  being registered which remain
                  unsold at the termination of the offering.






                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant,  IDS
Life Insurance Company, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-2 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,  thereunto
duly authorized in the City of  Minneapolis,  and State of Minnesota on the 23rd
day of April, 2003.

                                                IDS Life Insurance Company
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                                                (Registrant)

                                                By IDS Life Insurance Company

                                                By /s/ Timothy V. Bechtold*
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                                                       Timothy V. Bechtold
                                                       President


Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,  this  Registration
Statement  has been  signed  below by the  following  persons in the  capacities
indicated on the 23rd day of April, 2003.

Signature                                     Title

/s/  Gumer C. Alvero*                         Director
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     Gumer C. Alvero

/s/  Timothy V. Bechtold*                     Director and President
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     Timothy V. Bechtold

/s/  Barbara H. Fraser**                      Chairman of the Board of Directors
- ------------------------------------          and Chief Executive Officer
     Barbara H. Fraser                        (Chief Executive Officer)

/s/  Jeryl A. Millner***                      Vice President and Controller
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     Jeryl A. Millner

/s/  Barry J. Murphy*                         Director
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     Barry J. Murphy

/s/  Stephen W. Roszell*                      Director
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     Stephen W. Roszell

/s/  John T. Sweeney*                         Director and Executive
- ------------------------------------          Vice President - Finance
     John T. Sweeney                          (Principal Financial Officer)


*    Signed pursuant to Power of Attorney, dated April 9, 2002, filed
     electronically as Exhibit 24 to Post-Effective Amendment No. 11 to
     Registration Statement No. 33-48701, by:

**   Signed pursuant to Power of Attorney, dated Sept. 11, 2002, filed
     electronically herewith as Exhibit 24.2, by:

***  Signed pursuant to Power of Attorney, dated April 16, 2003, filed
     electronically herewith as Exhibit 24.3, by:



/s/ Mary Ellyn Minenko
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    Mary Ellyn Minenko