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Former state university employee Fontana paid in $15K to pension fund, could collect $1.18M in retirement

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Former state university employee Susan Fontana, who retired in March 2016, saved $15,266 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Fontana would collect as much as $1.18 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Fontana received $24,815 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Fontana will have already received $24,815 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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