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Former state university employee Lawton paid in $18K to pension fund, could collect $409K in retirement

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Former state university employee Patricia Lawton, who retired in May 2017, saved $18,076 toward a pension over 6 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lawton would collect as much as $409,150, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Lawton received $8,600 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lawton will have already received $26,582 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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