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Former state school employee Lakiotis paid in $9K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $90K in retirement

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Former state school employee Thanasis Lakiotis, who retired in May 2017, saved $8,724 toward a pension over 5 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lakiotis would collect as much as $89,506, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Lakiotis received $1,881 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 5 years of retirement, Lakiotis will have already received $9,985 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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