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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Scarcliff paid in $147K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.94M in retirement

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Former state school employee Catherine Scarcliff, who retired in May 2018, saved $146,730 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Scarcliff would collect as much as $2.94 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Scarcliff received $61,809 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Scarcliff will have already received $191,045 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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