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Lake County Gazette

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state school employee Popp paid in $71K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.26M in retirement

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Former state school employee Julie Popp, who retired in June 2017, saved $71,356 toward a pension over 17 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Popp would collect as much as $1.26 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Popp received $26,426 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Popp will have already received $81,681 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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