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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Former state school employee Potempa paid in $167K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.03M in retirement

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Former state school employee Debra Potempa, who retired in June 2017, saved $166,721 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Potempa would collect as much as $3.03 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Potempa received $63,605 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Potempa will have already received $196,596 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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