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Monday, June 9, 2025

Former state school employee Jones paid in $96K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.64M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathy Jones, who retired in November 2017, saved $95,978 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jones would collect as much as $1.64 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Jones received $34,541 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Jones will have already received $106,762 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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