State Officials Predict $1-Billion Annual Payment Won’t be Needed for Teacher Pension Fund by 2028

State officials are predicting a one-billion-dollar annual payment to the state’s teacher pension fund won’t have to happen by 2028.

Indiana pension officials say the fund that covers teachers hired before 1996 could be fully funded by then.

Since 2018, lawmakers have made four-point-three-billion-dollars in extra payments to the fund, with the largest coming in 2022 for two-point-five-billion.

Indiana Public Retirement System executive director Steve Russo says a 160-million-dollar payment in 2027 will put it at 100-percent funded status.