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Former state school employee Hanna paid in $96K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.98M in retirement

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Former state school employee Phyllis Hanna, who retired in June 2016, saved $96,055 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hanna would collect as much as $1.98 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Hanna received $41,673 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hanna will have already received $128,807 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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