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Former state university employee Horn paid in $62K to pension fund, could collect $1.24M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sandra Horn, who retired in June 2018, saved $61,737 toward a pension over 24 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Horn would collect as much as $1.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Horn received $26,067 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Horn will have already received $80,570 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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