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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Former state school employee Collingwood paid in $129K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.55M in retirement

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Former state school employee Gregory Collingwood, who retired in May 2017, saved $129,288 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Collingwood would collect as much as $2.55 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Macon Reporter.

The projection assumes Collingwood received $53,502 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Collingwood will have already received $165,369 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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