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Former state university employee Harner paid in $22K to pension fund, could collect $272K in retirement

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Former state university employee Luann Harner, who retired in August 2018, saved $21,723 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Harner would collect as much as $272,321, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Harner received $5,724 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Harner will have already received $23,948 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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