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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Former state school employee Ascencio paid in $77K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.44M in retirement

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Former state school employee Maria Ascencio, who retired in June 2017, saved $76,565 toward a pension over 19 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ascencio would collect as much as $1.44 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Ascencio received $30,187 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ascencio will have already received $93,306 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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