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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Borland paid in $101K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.71M in retirement

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Former state school employee Carilyn Borland, who retired in May 2018, saved $100,772 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Borland would collect as much as $1.71 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Borland received $35,927 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Borland will have already received $111,047 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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