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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Former state school employee Cravens paid in $5K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $79K in retirement

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Former state school employee Dianne Cravens, who retired in May 2016, saved $4,565 toward a pension over 1 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cravens would collect as much as $79,230, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Cravens received $1,665 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cravens will have already received $5,146 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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