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Former state school employee Kolkebeck paid in $13K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $161K in retirement

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Former state school employee Robert Kolkebeck, who retired in February 2018, saved $12,984 toward a pension over 7 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kolkebeck would collect as much as $161,018, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Kolkebeck received $3,384 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Kolkebeck will have already received $14,160 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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