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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Former state school employee Severtson paid in $69K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $937K in retirement

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Former state school employee Wanda Severtson, who retired in October 2017, saved $68,650 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Severtson would collect as much as $936,866, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Severtson received $19,692 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Severtson will have already received $82,384 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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