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Former state school employee Herzog Steward paid in $106K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.09M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ruth Herzog Steward, who retired in June 2018, saved $105,876 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Herzog Steward would collect as much as $2.09 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Herzog Steward received $43,899 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Herzog Steward will have already received $135,687 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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