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Former state school employee Heinz paid in $166K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.2M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kimberly Heinz, who retired in June 2018, saved $166,154 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Heinz would collect as much as $4.2 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Heinz received $88,238 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Heinz will have already received $179,123 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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