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Former state university employee Knicker paid in $3K to pension fund, could collect $43K in retirement

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Former state university employee Holly Knicker, who retired in March 2019, saved $2,791 toward a pension over 3 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Knicker would collect as much as $42,817, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Knicker received $900 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Knicker will have already received $3,766 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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