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Former state school employee Shofner paid in $135K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.94M in retirement

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Former state school employee Deborah Shofner, who retired in May 2016, saved $134,808 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shofner would collect as much as $2.94 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Shofner received $61,747 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shofner will have already received $190,853 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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