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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Jordan paid in $84K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.24M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karenila Jordan, who retired in May 2018, saved $84,483 toward a pension over 14 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jordan would collect as much as $1.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Jordan received $26,023 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Jordan will have already received $108,871 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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