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Former state school employee Grant paid in $35K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $702K in retirement

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Former state school employee Marla Grant, who retired in June 2018, saved $34,908 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, Grant would collect as much as $701,516, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes SE Illinois News.

The projection assumes Grant received $14,745 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Grant will have already received $45,575 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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