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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Former state school employee Kottke Miller paid in $47K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.63M in retirement

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Former state school employee Anita Kottke Miller, who retired in June 2017, saved $46,745 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kottke Miller would collect as much as $1.63 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Kottke Miller received $34,288 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Kottke Miller will have already received $69,605 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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