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Former state school employee Huffman paid in $191K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.3M in retirement

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Former state school employee Cindy Huffman, who retired in May 2018, saved $190,570 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Huffman would collect as much as $2.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Huffman received $48,258 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Huffman will have already received $201,894 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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