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Former state school employee Mattea paid in $96K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.8M in retirement

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Former state school employee Janet Mattea, who retired in May 2017, saved $95,971 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, Mattea would collect as much as $1.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Mattea received $37,781 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Mattea will have already received $116,776 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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