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Former state university employee Loveman paid in $87K to pension fund, could collect $2.48M in retirement

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Former state university employee Melesa Loveman, who retired in November 2017, saved $87,236 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Loveman would collect as much as $2.48 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Loveman received $52,143 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Loveman will have already received $105,850 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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