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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Former state school employee McKown paid in $139K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.78M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia McKown, who retired in May 2017, saved $138,835 toward a pension over 39 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McKown would collect as much as $2.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Macon Reporter.

The projection assumes McKown received $58,532 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McKown will have already received $180,917 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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