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Former state school employee Welter paid in $261K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.44M in retirement

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Former state school employee Denise Welter, who retired in July 2017, saved $261,041 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Welter would collect as much as $5.44 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Welter received $114,304 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Welter will have already received $353,302 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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