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Friday, April 4, 2025

Former state school employee Schramm paid in $134K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.63M in retirement

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Former state school employee Judith Schramm, who retired in June 2016, saved $134,226 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schramm would collect as much as $3.63 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Schramm received $76,287 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Schramm will have already received $154,863 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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