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Former state school employee Graack paid in $94K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.99M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kristen Graack, who retired in June 2016, saved $94,125 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Graack would collect as much as $1.99 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Graack received $41,778 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Graack will have already received $129,131 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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