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Former state school employee Reed paid in $116K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.24M in retirement

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Former state school employee Georgia Reed, who retired in May 2017, saved $115,706 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, Reed would collect as much as $2.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Reed received $47,187 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Reed will have already received $145,851 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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