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Former state school employee Collins paid in $2K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $48K in retirement

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Former state school employee Cecelia Collins, who retired in May 2018, saved $1,587 toward a pension over 1 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Collins would collect as much as $47,653, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Collins received $1,001 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Collins will have already received $2,032 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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