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Lake County Gazette

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Former state school employee Blumberg paid in $183K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.28M in retirement

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Former state school employee Bette Blumberg, who retired in June 2016, saved $182,766 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Blumberg would collect as much as $3.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Blumberg received $68,994 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Blumberg will have already received $213,254 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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