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Friday, June 6, 2025

Former state school employee Richardson paid in $160K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.79M in retirement

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Former state school employee Carol Richardson, who retired in June 2017, saved $159,790 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Richardson would collect as much as $3.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Richardson received $79,767 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Richardson will have already received $161,927 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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