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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Cameron paid in $155K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.49M in retirement

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Former state school employee Clifford Cameron, who retired in May 2016, saved $154,718 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cameron would collect as much as $3.49 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Cameron received $73,436 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cameron will have already received $226,983 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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