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Former state school employee Kuehnel paid in $56K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $991K in retirement

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Former state school employee Sharon Kuehnel, who retired in April 2018, saved $56,370 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kuehnel would collect as much as $990,611, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Kuehnel received $20,821 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kuehnel will have already received $64,356 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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