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Former state school employee Caires paid in $66K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.12M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karen Caires, who retired in May 2018, saved $65,920 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Caires would collect as much as $1.12 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Caires received $23,488 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Caires will have already received $72,600 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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