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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state university employee Smith paid in $111K to pension fund, could collect $2.79M in retirement

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Former state university employee Maureen Smith, who retired in May 2018, saved $111,043 toward a pension over 31 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Smith would collect as much as $2.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Smith received $58,587 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Smith will have already received $118,932 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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