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Former state school employee Howard paid in $141K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.45M in retirement

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Former state school employee Peggy Howard, who retired in May 2016, saved $141,414 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, Howard would collect as much as $2.45 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Howard received $51,409 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Howard will have already received $158,900 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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