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Analysis: Park Forest Police Pension Fund would go broke in 11 years without taxpayer subsidy

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Without members and taxpayers subsidizing its revenue, Park Forest Police Pension Fund lost $1,800,676 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 $18,846,754 in total assets. If the funds annual losses were the same, it would run out of money in 11 years without these subsidies.

The fund earned $418,387 in investment income and other revenue in 2016. At the same time, it paid out $2,219,063 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 $1,432,501 to the funds revenue last year – an amount that has increased from $1,017,982 five years ago. Members contributed an additional $389,326 – $61,516 more than five years ago.

In all, subsidies amounted to $1,821,827 in 2016.

Park Forest Police Pension Fund non-subsidy revenue over five years
YearTotal non-subsidy revenueTotal expensesOutcome without subsidies
2016$418,387$2,219,063-$1,800,676
2015$170,313$2,170,603-$2,000,290
2014$1,533,162$2,132,812-$599,650
2013$482,964$1,791,111-$1,308,147
2012$374,392$1,592,984-$1,218,592

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