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Former state school employee Hewitt paid in $135K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.09M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kay Hewitt, who retired in June 2016, saved $135,080 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hewitt would collect as much as $2.09 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Hewitt received $43,869 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hewitt will have already received $135,595 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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