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Former state school employee Richardson paid in $80K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.58M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Ann Richardson, who retired in March 2018, saved $79,877 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Richardson would collect as much as $1.58 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Richardson received $33,283 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Richardson will have already received $102,873 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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