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Friday, August 1, 2025

Former state university employee Haines paid in $85K to pension fund, could collect $1.91M in retirement

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Former state university employee Terri Haines, who retired in October 2018, saved $84,628 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Haines would collect as much as $1.91 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Haines received $40,201 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Haines will have already received $124,257 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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