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Former state school employee Kaatz paid in $114K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.95M in retirement

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Former state school employee Donna Kaatz, who retired in June 2018, saved $113,733 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kaatz would collect as much as $1.95 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Kaatz received $40,914 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kaatz will have already received $126,460 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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