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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Former state school employee Trusty paid in $75K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.5M in retirement

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Former state school employee Susan Trusty, who retired in May 2016, saved $75,388 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Trusty would collect as much as $1.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Trusty received $31,614 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Trusty will have already received $97,715 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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