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Former state university employee Heindselman paid in $77K to pension fund, could collect $1.87M in retirement

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Former state university employee Christine Heindselman, who retired in August 2018, saved $77,323 toward a pension over 34 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Heindselman would collect as much as $1.87 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Heindselman received $39,326 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Heindselman will have already received $79,832 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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