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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Former state school employee Lezak paid in $19K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $345K in retirement

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Former state school employee Linda Lezak, who retired in July 2017, saved $19,017 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lezak would collect as much as $344,975, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Lezak received $7,251 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lezak will have already received $22,413 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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