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Former state school employee Allen paid in $100K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.34M in retirement

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Former state school employee Judy Allen, who retired in May 2016, saved $100,469 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Allen would collect as much as $2.34 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Allen received $49,177 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Allen will have already received $152,001 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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