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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state university employee Stewart paid in $81K to pension fund, could collect $1.35M in retirement

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Former state university employee Edward Stewart, who retired in June 2017, saved $81,078 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Stewart would collect as much as $1.35 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Stewart received $28,366 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Stewart will have already received $87,677 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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