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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Former state school employee Schwendau paid in $21K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.07M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mark Schwendau, who retired in July 2016, saved $20,734 toward a pension over 14 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schwendau would collect as much as $1.07 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Schwendau received $22,436 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Schwendau will have already received $22,436 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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