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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Former state school employee Collins paid in $93K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.53M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Collins, who retired in June 2017, saved $93,332 toward a pension over 19 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Collins would collect as much as $1.53 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Collins received $32,109 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Collins will have already received $99,245 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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