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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Former state school employee Appleman paid in $118K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.22M in retirement

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Former state school employee James Appleman, who retired in June 2018, saved $117,505 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Appleman would collect as much as $2.22 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Appleman received $46,693 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Appleman will have already received $144,324 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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