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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Former state school employee Farruggia paid in $224K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.93M in retirement

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Former state school employee Stephanie Farruggia, who retired in June 2017, saved $224,447 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, Farruggia would collect as much as $5.93 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Farruggia received $124,593 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Farruggia will have already received $252,924 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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