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Former state school employee Townsend paid in $148K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.25M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christopher Townsend, who retired in May 2017, saved $147,525 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Townsend would collect as much as $3.25 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Townsend received $68,326 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Townsend will have already received $211,189 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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