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Former state school employee Hollingshead paid in $47K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $800K in retirement

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Former state school employee Frankie Hollingshead, who retired in May 2018, saved $46,543 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hollingshead would collect as much as $800,385, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Hollingshead received $16,823 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hollingshead will have already received $51,999 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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