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Former state school employee Schifferdecker paid in $19K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $674K in retirement

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Former state school employee Maureen Schifferdecker, who retired in May 2017, saved $18,627 toward a pension over 11 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schifferdecker would collect as much as $673,605, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Schifferdecker received $14,158 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Schifferdecker will have already received $28,741 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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