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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Former state school employee Smith paid in $2K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $145K in retirement

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Former state school employee Yvonne Smith, who retired in June 2016, saved $2,135 toward a pension over 1 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Smith would collect as much as $145,221, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Smith received $3,052 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Smith will have already received $3,052 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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