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Former state university employee Henderson paid in $63K to pension fund, could collect $1.29M in retirement

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Former state university employee Teresa Henderson, who retired in July 2018, saved $63,045 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Henderson would collect as much as $1.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Henderson received $27,076 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Henderson will have already received $83,689 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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