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Former state school employee Dilsaver paid in $47K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $841K in retirement

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Former state school employee Susan Dilsaver, who retired in June 2018, saved $46,681 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dilsaver would collect as much as $841,257, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Dilsaver received $17,682 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dilsaver will have already received $54,652 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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