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Lake County Gazette

Monday, June 30, 2025

Former state school employee Goss paid in $171K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.67M in retirement

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Former state school employee Susan Goss, who retired in June 2016, saved $170,963 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Goss would collect as much as $3.67 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Goss received $77,217 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Goss will have already received $238,671 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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