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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Hansen paid in $7K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $201K in retirement

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Former state school employee Maureen Hansen, who retired in January 2017, saved $6,886 toward a pension over 4 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hansen would collect as much as $200,872, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Hansen received $4,222 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Hansen will have already received $8,571 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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