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Former state school employee Cunningham paid in $8K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $121K in retirement

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Former state school employee Michael Cunningham, who retired in May 2018, saved $8,240 toward a pension over 7 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cunningham would collect as much as $120,917, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Cunningham received $2,541 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Cunningham will have already received $10,631 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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