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Former state school employee Maher paid in $8K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $481K in retirement

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Former state school employee Catherine Maher, who retired in August 2017, saved $7,865 toward a pension over 6 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Maher would collect as much as $481,307, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Maher received $10,116 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Maher will have already received $10,116 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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