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Former state school employee Horan paid in $43K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.39M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ellen Horan, who retired in September 2017, saved $42,668 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Horan would collect as much as $1.39 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Horan received $29,256 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Horan will have already received $59,390 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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