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Former state university employee Chase paid in $46K to pension fund, could collect $1.08M in retirement

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Former state university employee Rhondda Chase, who retired in August 2016, saved $45,651 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Chase would collect as much as $1.08 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Chase received $22,651 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Chase will have already received $45,982 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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