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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Former state school employee White paid in $208K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.88M in retirement

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Former state school employee Jennifer White, who retired in May 2018, saved $208,112 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, White would collect as much as $4.88 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes White received $102,521 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, White will have already received $208,118 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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