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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Former state school employee Debolt paid in $141K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.77M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joy Debolt, who retired in June 2016, saved $140,557 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Debolt would collect as much as $2.77 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Debolt received $58,143 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Debolt will have already received $179,714 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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