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Former state school employee Nierman paid in $42K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $739K in retirement

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Former state school employee Rebecca Nierman, who retired in May 2016, saved $42,286 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Nierman would collect as much as $738,905, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Nierman received $15,531 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Nierman will have already received $48,005 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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