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Former state school employee Drews paid in $198K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.38M in retirement

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Former state school employee Paula Drews, who retired in June 2016, saved $197,660 toward a pension over 36 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Drews would collect as much as $4.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Drews received $91,967 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Drews will have already received $284,261 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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