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Former state school employee Morrissey paid in $41K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.43M in retirement

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Former state school employee Laura Morrissey, who retired in February 2018, saved $41,043 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Morrissey would collect as much as $1.43 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Morrissey received $30,035 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Morrissey will have already received $60,971 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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