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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Former state school employee Schreiber paid in $117K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.2M in retirement

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Former state school employee Jo Ann Schreiber, who retired in June 2016, saved $117,167 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schreiber would collect as much as $2.2 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Schreiber received $46,314 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schreiber will have already received $143,151 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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