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Former state school employee Tomlinson paid in $52K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $641K in retirement

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Former state school employee Rebecca Tomlinson, who retired in August 2016, saved $51,850 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tomlinson would collect as much as $641,354, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Tomlinson received $13,480 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Tomlinson will have already received $56,395 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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