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Monday, December 23, 2024

Former state school employee Spates paid in $101K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.32M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Spates, who retired in May 2017, saved $101,478 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Spates would collect as much as $2.32 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Macon Reporter.

The projection assumes Spates received $48,786 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Spates will have already received $150,794 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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