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Monday, May 6, 2024

Former state university employee Armistead paid in $12K to pension fund, could collect $168K in retirement

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Former state university employee Leon Armistead, who retired in September 2016, saved $11,796 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Armistead would collect as much as $168,416, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Armistead received $3,540 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Armistead will have already received $14,809 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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