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Former state school employee Simmonds Dailey paid in $33K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.3M in retirement

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Former state school employee Veronica Simmonds Dailey, who retired in December 2017, saved $33,301 toward a pension over 14 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Simmonds Dailey would collect as much as $1.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Simmonds Dailey received $27,425 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Simmonds Dailey will have already received $55,673 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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