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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Former state school employee Fisher Gough paid in $109K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.08M in retirement

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Former state school employee Debra Fisher Gough, who retired in May 2017, saved $109,138 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, Fisher Gough would collect as much as $2.08 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Fisher Gough received $43,615 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Fisher Gough will have already received $134,809 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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