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Former state school employee Spellacy paid in $12K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $419K in retirement

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Former state school employee Judith Spellacy, who retired in February 2017, saved $12,048 toward a pension over 5 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Spellacy would collect as much as $419,375, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Spellacy received $8,814 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Spellacy will have already received $17,892 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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