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Former state school employee Day paid in $88K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.9M in retirement

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Former state school employee Elizabeth Day, who retired in May 2017, saved $87,516 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Day would collect as much as $1.9 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Day received $39,934 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Day will have already received $123,432 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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