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Former state school employee Leonard paid in $30K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $675K in retirement

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Former state school employee Robin Leonard, who retired in May 2016, saved $29,999 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Leonard would collect as much as $674,878, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Leonard received $14,185 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Leonard will have already received $43,845 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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