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Former state school employee Matei paid in $225K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.46M in retirement

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Former state school employee Susan Matei, who retired in June 2016, saved $224,710 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Matei would collect as much as $3.46 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Matei received $72,742 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Matei will have already received $224,838 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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