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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Former state school employee Folkman paid in $138K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.61M in retirement

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Former state school employee Tamsin Folkman, who retired in June 2018, saved $138,115 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Folkman would collect as much as $2.61 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Folkman received $54,963 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Folkman will have already received $169,885 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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