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Former state university employee Tubbs paid in $69K to pension fund, could collect $1.49M in retirement

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Former state university employee Leah Tubbs, who retired in August 2018, saved $68,504 toward a pension over 31 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tubbs would collect as much as $1.49 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Tubbs received $31,282 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tubbs will have already received $96,689 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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