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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Former state school employee Larsen paid in $121K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.65M in retirement

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Former state school employee Judith Larsen, who retired in June 2016, saved $120,727 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Larsen would collect as much as $2.65 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Larsen received $55,640 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Larsen will have already received $171,977 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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