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Former state school employee Volden paid in $137K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.39M in retirement

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Former state school employee Vicki Volden, who retired in June 2017, saved $136,619 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Volden would collect as much as $2.39 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Volden received $50,308 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Volden will have already received $155,497 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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