As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2006
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                              FILE NO. 333-123847


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                         POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2

                                       TO

                                    FORM S-3

            REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                           (Exact Name of Registrant)


                                   ILLINOIS
                          (State or Other Jurisdiction
                        of Incorporation or Organization)

                                   36-2554642
                     (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)





                               3100 SANDERS ROAD
                           NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS 60062
                                  847/402-5000

            (Address and Phone Number of Principal Executive Office)


                               MICHAEL J. VELOTTA
              SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY AND GENERAL COUNSEL
                        ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                          3100 SANDERS ROAD, SUITE J5B
                           NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS 60062
                                  847/402-5000

       (Name, Complete Address and Telephone Number of Agent for Service)

                                   COPIES TO:

                           LISETTE WILLEMSEN, ESQUIRE
                        ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                          3100 SANDERS ROAD, SUITE J5B
                              NORTHBROOK, IL 60062


Approximate  date of  commencement  of proposed sale to the public:  The annuity
contracts  and market  value  adjustment  interests  thereunder  covered by this
registration statement are to be issued promptly and from time to time after the
effective date of this registration statement.

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, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box: /X/

Registrant  hereby amends this  Registration  Statement on such date or dates as
may be necessary to delay its effective date until the  Registrant  shall file a
further amendment which  specifically  states that this  Registration  Statement
shall  thereafter  become  effective  in  accordance  with  Section  8(a) of the
Securities  Act of  1933  or  until  the  Registration  Statement  shall  become
effective on such date as the  Commission,  acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may
determine.



                                Explanatory Note

Registrant  is  filing  this  post-effective  amendment  ("Amendment")  to add a
corrected Part II to the registration  statement.  The Part II replaces the Part
II filed in  Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 1 to the  registration  statement on
April 5, 2006 ("Post-Effective  Amendment No. 1"). The prospectus describing the
Contract  filed in  Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 1 is  incorporated  herein by
reference.  The  Amendment  is not  intended  to amend or delete any part of the
registration statement, except as specifically noted herein.




                                     PART II
                   INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS


ITEM 14.  OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION

Registrant anticipates that it will incur the following approximate expenses in
connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities to be
registered:

        Registration fees............................   $100,045
        (previously registered)
        Cost of printing and engraving..............    $280,000
        Legal fees...................................   $15,000
        Accounting fees..............................   $15,000
        Mailing fees.................................   $25,000


ITEM 15.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

The By-laws of Allstate Life Insurance Company ("Registrant") provide that
Registrant will indemnify all of its directors, former directors, officers and
former officers, to the fullest extent permitted under law, who were or are a
party or are threatened to be made a party to any proceeding by reason of the
fact that such persons were or are directors or officers of Registrant, against
liabilities, expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually
and reasonably incurred by them. The indemnity shall not be deemed exclusive of
any other rights to which directors or officers may be entitled by law or under
any articles of incorporation, bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors or otherwise. In addition, the indemnity shall inure to
the benefit of the legal representatives of directors and officers or of their
estates, whether such representatives are court appointed or otherwise
designated, and to the benefit of the heirs of such directors and officers. The
indemnity shall extend to and include claims for such payments arising out of
any proceeding commenced or based on actions of such directors and officers
taken prior to the effectiveness of this indemnity; provided that payment of
such claims had not been agreed to or denied by Registrant before such date.

The directors and officers of Registrant have been provided liability insurance
for certain losses arising from claims or charges made against them while acting
in their capacities as directors or officers of Registrant.



ITEM 16.  EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.

Exhibit No.        Description

(1) Underwriting Agreement between Allstate Life Insurance Company and Allstate
Distributors, L.L.C. (Incorporated herein by reference to Pre-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to the Form N-4 Registration Statement of Allstate Life
Insurance Company Separate Account A (File No. 333-31288) dated April 27, 2000.)

(2) None

(4) Form of Single Premium Deferred Annuity Certificate and Application
(Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's initial Form S-3 Registration
Statement (File No. 333-105208) dated May 13, 2003.)

(5)(a) Opinion and Consent of General Counsel re: Legality. (Incorporated herein
     by reference to  Pre-Effective  Amendment  No. 2 to  Registrant's  Form S-3
     Registration Statement (File No. 333-105208) dated July 21, 2003.)

(5)(b) Opinion and Consent of General Counsel re: Legality. (Incorporated herein
     by reference to Registrant's Initial Form S-3 Registration  Statement (File
     No. 333-112233) dated January 27, 2004.)

(5)(c) Opinion and Consent of General Counsel re: Legality. (Incorporated herein
     by reference to Registrant's  Initial Form S-3 Registration  Statement File
     No. 333-119296) dated September 27, 2004.)

(5)(d) Opinion and Consent of General Counsel re: Legality  (Previously filed in
Registrant's Initial Form S-3 Registration Statement (File No. 333-123847) dated
April 5, 2005.)

(8) None

(11) None

(12) None

(15) None

(23) Consent of Independent  Registered Public Accounting Firm (Previously filed
in  Post-Effective  Amendment  No.  1  to  Registrant's  Form  S-3  Registration
Statement (File No. 333-123847) dated April 5, 2006.

(24) Powers of Attorney for David A. Bird, Danny L. Hale,  Edward M. Liddy, John
C. Lounds, Samuel H. Pilch, John C. Pintozzi, Eric A. Simonson, Kevin R. Slawin,
Casey J. Sylla, Michael J. Velotta,  Douglas B. Welch, and Thomas J. Wilson, II
filed herewith.


(25) None

(26) None

(27) Not applicable

(99) Experts (Previously filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registrant's
Form S-3 Registration Statement (File No. 333-123847) dated April 5, 2006.


ITEM 17.                 UNDERTAKINGS

(a)  The undersigned 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.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities
offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that
which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum
aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee"
table in the effective 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.

Provided,  however,  that the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (i), (ii) and
(iii)  above do not  apply  if the  information  required  to be  included  in a
post-effective  amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with
or  furnished  to the  Commission  by the  Registrant  pursuant to section 13 or
section 15(d) of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934 that are  incorporated  by
reference  in  this  registration  statement,  or  is  contained  in a  form  of
prospectus  filed  pursuant  to Rule  424(b)  that is part of this  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 to be 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)   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.

(4)   That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act
of 1933 to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part
of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration
statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on
Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration
statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided,
however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that
is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or
deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus
that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time
of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement
that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the
registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such
date of first use.

 (5)   That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under
the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the
securities:

The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of
securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration
statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to
the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means
of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a
seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities
to such purchaser:

(i)    Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant
relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii)   Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on
behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned
Registrant;

(iii)  The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the
offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or
its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and

(iv)  Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the
undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

(b)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be 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.

(c) Insofar as indemnification  for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
of 1933 ("Act") may be permitted to directors,  officers and controlling persons
of 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, officers 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.









                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Registrant certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the
Township of Northfield, State of Illinois on the 18th day of April, 2006.

                         ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                                (REGISTRANT) By:
                              /s/MICHAEL J. VELOTTA
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                               Michael J. Velotta
                        Senior Vice President, Secretary
                               and General Counsel


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
and on the 18th day of April, 2006.


*/CASEY J. SYLLA                 Chairman of the Board, President and
- -------------------              Director (Principal Executive Officer)
Casey J. Sylla


/s/MICHAEL J. VELOTTA            Senior Vice President, Secretary,
- ---------------------            General Counsel and Director
Michael J. Velotta


*/DAVID A. BIRD                  Senior Vice President and Director
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David A. Bird


*/DANNY L. HALE                  Director
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Danny L. Hale


*/EDWARD M. LIDDY                Director
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Edward M. Liddy


*/JOHN C. LOUNDS                 Senior Vice President and Director
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John C. Lounds


*/SAMUEL H. PILCH                Group Vice President and Controller
- -----------------                (Principal Accounting Officer)
Samuel H. Pilch


*/JOHN C. PINTOZZI               Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
- ------------------               Officer and Director
John C. Pintozzi                 (Principal Financial Officer)


*/ERIC A. SIMONSON               Senior Vice President, Chief Investment
- ------------------               Officer and Director
Eric A. Simonson


*/KEVIN R. SLAWIN                Senior Vice President and Director
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Kevin R. Slawin


*/DOUGLAS B. WELCH               Senior Vice President and Director
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Douglas B. Welch


*/THOMAS J. WILSON, II           Director
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Thomas J. Wilson, II


*/ By Michael J.  Velotta,  pursuant to Powers of Attorney filed herewith.










                                  EXHIBIT LIST

The following exhibits are filed herewith:

Exhibit No.             Description


(24)           Powers of Attorney for David A. Bird, Danny L. Hale, Edward M.
               Liddy, John C. Lounds, Samuel H. Pilch, John C. Pintozzi, Eric A.
               Simonson, Kevin R. Slawin, Casey J. Sylla, Michael J. Velotta,
               Douglas B. Welch, and Thomas J. Wilson, II.