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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Former state school employee Cohen paid in $174K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.29M in retirement

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Former state school employee Gail Cohen, who retired in May 2018, saved $173,597 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cohen would collect as much as $3.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Cohen received $69,165 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cohen will have already received $213,782 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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