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Former state school employee Piccinelli paid in $109K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.36M in retirement

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Former state school employee Nancy Piccinelli, who retired in May 2017, saved $109,094 toward a pension over 37 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Piccinelli would collect as much as $2.36 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Piccinelli received $49,700 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Piccinelli will have already received $153,618 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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