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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Former state school employee Lewis paid in $111K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.38M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ruth Lewis, who retired in May 2018, saved $110,627 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lewis would collect as much as $2.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Lewis received $50,130 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lewis will have already received $154,947 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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