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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Former state school employee Sullivan paid in $120K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.02M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sue Sullivan, who retired in May 2016, saved $120,432 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sullivan would collect as much as $2.02 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Sullivan received $42,563 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Sullivan will have already received $131,558 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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