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Former state school employee Lipa paid in $55K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.11M in retirement

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Former state school employee Constance Lipa, who retired in November 2016, saved $54,528 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, Lipa would collect as much as $1.11 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Lipa received $23,403 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lipa will have already received $72,336 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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