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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Former state school employee Kovac paid in $14K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $216K in retirement

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Former state school employee Diane Kovac, who retired in December 2016, saved $13,814 toward a pension over 9 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kovac would collect as much as $215,516, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Kovac received $4,530 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kovac will have already received $14,002 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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