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Former state school employee Kaplan paid in $206K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.88M in retirement

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Former state school employee Madeline Kaplan, who retired in June 2016, saved $206,491 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, Kaplan would collect as much as $4.88 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Kaplan received $102,589 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Kaplan will have already received $208,256 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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