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Former state school employee Klobucher paid in $216K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.94M in retirement

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Former state school employee Linda Klobucher, who retired in July 2017, saved $216,472 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Klobucher would collect as much as $5.94 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Klobucher received $124,896 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Klobucher will have already received $253,539 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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