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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Former state school employee Hensley paid in $75K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.38M in retirement

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Former state school employee Phyllis Hensley, who retired in May 2016, saved $75,242 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hensley would collect as much as $1.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Hensley received $28,916 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hensley will have already received $89,375 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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