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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Penman paid in $14K to pension fund, could collect $520K in retirement

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Former state university employee John Penman, who retired in March 2018, saved $14,204 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Penman would collect as much as $519,523, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Penman received $10,920 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Penman will have already received $22,168 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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