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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Former state school employee Banach paid in $201K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.05M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Banach, who retired in June 2017, saved $201,253 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Banach would collect as much as $4.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Banach received $85,141 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Banach will have already received $263,162 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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