Former state school employee Lofgren paid in $68K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.43M in retirement

By Rock Island Today Reports

Jun 1, 2017

Former state school employee Kathleen Lofgren, who retired in May 2017, saved $67,915 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lofgren would collect as much as $1.43 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rock Island Today.

The projection assumes Lofgren received $29,970 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lofgren will have already received $92,634 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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