Sangamon Sun

Former state school employee Sue Tillman Scoggins, who retired in June 2016, saved $137,029 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tillman Scoggins would collect as much as $2.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Tillman Scoggins received $55,053 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tillman Scoggins will have already received $170,164 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.