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Friday, June 6, 2025

Former state school employee Kotal paid in $9K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $144K in retirement

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Former state school employee Penny Kotal, who retired in May 2017, saved $9,072 toward a pension over 2 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kotal would collect as much as $143,828, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Macon Reporter.

The projection assumes Kotal received $3,023 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kotal will have already received $9,344 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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