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Monday, October 27, 2025

Former state school employee Holmes paid in $112K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.86M in retirement

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Former state school employee Suzette Holmes, who retired in September 2016, saved $112,440 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, Holmes would collect as much as $1.86 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Holmes received $39,168 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Holmes will have already received $121,064 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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