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Former state school employee Leffler paid in $272K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.98M in retirement

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Former state school employee Timothy Leffler, who retired in May 2017, saved $271,559 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Leffler would collect as much as $5.98 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Leffler received $125,725 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Leffler will have already received $388,604 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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