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Former state university employee Corn paid in $9K to pension fund, could collect $515K in retirement

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Former state university employee Kathy Corn, who retired in April 2017, saved $8,761 toward a pension over 6 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Corn would collect as much as $515,201, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Corn received $10,829 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Corn will have already received $10,829 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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