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Analysis: Homewood Police Pension Fund would go broke in 13 years without taxpayer subsidy

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Without members and taxpayers subsidizing its revenue, Homewood Police Pension Fund lost $2,055,305 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 $24,860,562 in total assets. If the funds annual losses were the same, it would run out of money in 13 years without these subsidies.

The fund earned $104,056 in investment income and other revenue in 2016. At the same time, it paid out $2,159,361 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 $1,075,111 to the funds revenue last year – an amount that has increased from $900,358 five years ago. Members contributed an additional $391,865 – $83,467 more than five years ago.

In all, subsidies amounted to $1,466,976 in 2016.

Homewood Police Pension Fund non-subsidy revenue over five years
YearTotal non-subsidy revenueTotal expensesOutcome without subsidies
2016$104,056$2,159,361-$2,055,305
2015$1,973,355$2,154,591-$181,236
2014$2,043,672$2,027,382$16,290
2013$1,481,548$1,987,737-$506,189
2012$83,233$1,788,170-$1,704,937

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