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Former state school employee Duckworth paid in $110K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.22M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karen Duckworth, who retired in May 2017, saved $109,974 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Duckworth would collect as much as $2.22 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Duckworth received $46,687 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Duckworth will have already received $144,306 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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