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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2024 · Form 5500

Life Skills Training & Educational Programs

Healthcare & social assistance · Sacramento, California · EIN ending 0982 · doing business as Lifesteps

Updated Filing received by DOL

Life Skills Training & Educational Programs, a healthcare & social assistance employer in Sacramento, California, reported 139 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2024. Its Form 5500 shows 6 insurance contracts with no premium reported and $70,382 in broker commissions and fees. The plan is fully insured (an insurance carrier pays claims). The Department of Labor received the filing on March 25, 2026, before the deadline.

Participants
139
+17.8% vs 2023
Premiums filed
none
premium not reported on 2 medical contracts
Broker commissions + fees
$70,382
+28.8% vs 2023
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Life Skills Training & Educational Programs's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Life Skills Training & Educational Programs filed for 2024.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Interwest Insurance Services, LLC · Sacramento, CA$69,802$580$70,3825

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2024, as published in EBSA's 2024 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

Every insurance contract reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Claremont Behavioral Services, Inccoverage not coded357———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.health, prescription drug123—$54,044—
Delta Dental of Californiadental188—$7,850—
Western Health Advantagehealth, prescription drug9—$5,457—
Eyemed Vision Care on Behalf of Fidelity Security Life Insurance Co.vision153—$940—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companylife147—$2,091—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2024. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Life Skills Training & Educational Programs compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
Life Skills Training & Educational Programs
$70,382
Commission rate, % of medical premium

Not computable: no insured medical premium on the filing.

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Year over year

$54,627$70,382Broker pay20232024
Life Skills Training & Educational Programs: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2023 vs 2024
20232024Change
Participants118139+17.8%
Premiums filed$0$0not comparable
Broker commissions + fees$54,627$70,382+28.8%
Commission rate———

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2023 and 2024.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
Life Skills Training & Educational Programs Welfare Benefit Plan#501 · insuranceAugust 31, 2025March 25, 2026before deadline139

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did Life Skills Training & Educational Programs pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2024?

Life Skills Training & Educational Programs's 2024 Form 5500 reports $70,382 in broker commissions and fees across 6 insurance contracts ($69,802 in commissions, $580 in fees), with Interwest Insurance Services, LLC receiving the largest share.

Is Life Skills Training & Educational Programs's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2024 filing indicates the plan is fully insured (an insurance carrier pays claims). Medical coverage is written by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Western Health Advantage.

How does Life Skills Training & Educational Programs's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Life Skills Training & Educational Programs because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 100-199 participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $53,852.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.