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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Former state school employee Popper paid in $18K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $421K in retirement

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Former state school employee Andrea Popper, who retired in May 2017, saved $18,029 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Popper would collect as much as $421,476, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Popper received $8,859 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Popper will have already received $27,383 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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