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Former state school employee Serrato paid in $59K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $801K in retirement

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Former state school employee Maria Serrato, who retired in May 2018, saved $59,274 toward a pension over 13 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Serrato would collect as much as $800,511, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Serrato received $16,826 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Serrato will have already received $70,395 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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