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Former state school employee Seaberry paid in $190K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.61M in retirement

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Former state school employee Lelon Seaberry, who retired in June 2018, saved $190,401 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Seaberry would collect as much as $3.61 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Seaberry received $75,824 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Seaberry will have already received $234,365 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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