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Monday, November 25, 2024

Former state school employee Loeppert paid in $89K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.66M in retirement

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Former state school employee Donna Loeppert, who retired in May 2016, saved $89,075 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, Loeppert would collect as much as $1.66 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Loeppert received $34,823 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Loeppert will have already received $107,635 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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