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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Houseworth paid in $54K to pension fund, could collect $1.13M in retirement

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Former state university employee Susan Houseworth, who retired in March 2018, saved $54,170 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Houseworth would collect as much as $1.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Houseworth received $23,798 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Houseworth will have already received $73,557 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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