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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Former state school employee Cohorst paid in $117K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.5M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Cohorst, who retired in May 2018, saved $117,208 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cohorst would collect as much as $2.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Cohorst received $52,566 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cohorst will have already received $162,476 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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