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Monday, June 30, 2025

Former state school employee Barnes paid in $84K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.37M in retirement

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Former state school employee Judy Barnes, who retired in May 2017, saved $83,919 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Barnes would collect as much as $1.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Barnes received $28,856 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Barnes will have already received $89,192 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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