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Analysis: Cook County Employees' A&B Fund would go bankrupt in nine years without taxpayer subsidy

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Without members and taxpayers subsidizing its revenue, the Cook County Employees' A&B Fund would have lost $1,267,767,053 in 2018, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of the latest data reported to the Illinois Department of Insurance Pension Division.

The fund has $2,147,483,647 in total assets. If the fund’s annual losses stay the same, it would run out of money in nine years without these subsidies.

The fund lost $359,549,625 in investment income and other revenue in 2018. At the same time, it paid out $908,217,428 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 $587,748,221 to the fund’s revenue last year – an amount that has increased from $193,571,241 five years ago. Members contributed an additional $134,159,171 – $4,833,853 more than five years ago.

In all, subsidies amounted to $721,907,392 in 2018.

Cook County Employees' A&B Fund non-subsidy revenue over five years
YearTotal non-subsidy revenueTotal expensesOutcome without subsidies
2018-$359,549,625$908,217,428-$1,267,767,053
2017$1,459,095,665$864,901,902$594,193,763
2016$673,211,959$849,035,225-$175,823,266
2015$19,412,357$810,789,976-$791,377,619
2014$526,885,935$708,750,370-$181,864,435

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