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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Analysis: General Assembly Retirement System would go bankrupt in three years without taxpayer subsidy

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Without members and taxpayers subsidizing its revenue, the General Assembly Retirement System would have lost $19,942,756 in 2018, according to a Sangamon Sun analysis of the latest data reported to the Illinois Department of Insurance Pension Division.

The fund has $58,862,559 in total assets. If the fund’s annual losses stay the same, it would run out of money in three years without these subsidies.

The fund earned $3,733,504 in investment income and other revenue in 2018. At the same time, it paid out $23,676,260 in expenses, according to the 2019 biennial report detailing the health of each of the state’s pension funds and retirement systems. The difference between the two shows the fund’s annual loss without subsidies.

Taxpayers added $21,155,000 to the fund’s revenue last year – an amount that has increased from $13,956,669 five years ago. Members contributed an additional $1,255,232 – $247,373 less than five years ago.

In all, subsidies amounted to $22,410,232 in 2018.

General Assembly Retirement System non-subsidy revenue over five years
YearTotal non-subsidy revenueTotal expensesOutcome without subsidies
2018$3,733,504$23,676,260-$19,942,756
2017$5,140,250$22,849,122-$17,708,872
2016-$539,494$22,365,394-$22,904,888
2015$2,287,916$21,861,399-$19,573,483
2014$8,363,428$21,380,263-$13,016,835

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