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Analysis: Calumet City Firefighters Pension Fund would go broke in nine years without taxpayer subsidy

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Without members and taxpayers subsidizing its revenue, Calumet City Firefighters Pension Fund lost $3,575,123 in 2016, according to a South Cook News analysis of the latest data reported to the Illinois Department of Insurance Pension Division.

The fund has $31,412,740 in total assets. If the funds annual losses were the same, it would run out of money in nine years without these subsidies.

The fund lost $571,890 in investment income and other revenue in 2016. At the same time, it paid out $3,003,233 in expenses, according to the 2017 biennial report detailing the health of each of the states pension funds and retirement systems. The difference between the two shows the funds annual loss without subsidies.

Taxpayers added $2,338,590 to the funds revenue last year – an amount that has increased from $1,782,360 five years ago. Members contributed an additional $489,874 – $95,831 more than five years ago.

In all, subsidies amounted to $2,828,464 in 2016.

Calumet City Firefighters Pension Fund non-subsidy revenue over five years
YearTotal non-subsidy revenueTotal expensesOutcome without subsidies
2016-$571,890$3,003,233-$3,575,123
2015$2,117,528$2,959,218-$841,690
2014$2,370,639$2,924,739-$554,100
2013$1,780,016$2,866,708-$1,086,692
2012-$852,762$2,856,150-$3,708,912

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