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Monday, April 28, 2025

Former state school employee Lin paid in $126K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.31M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kuey Chien Lin, who retired in June 2016, saved $126,362 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lin would collect as much as $2.31 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Lin received $48,536 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lin will have already received $150,020 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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