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Former state school employee Kozak paid in $164K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.85M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathleen Kozak, who retired in May 2016, saved $163,640 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, Kozak would collect as much as $2.85 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Kozak received $59,818 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kozak will have already received $184,892 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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