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Former state university employee Carrasco paid in $55K to pension fund, could collect $952K in retirement

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Former state university employee Maria Carrasco, who retired in May 2018, saved $55,137 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carrasco would collect as much as $951,612, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Carrasco received $20,002 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carrasco will have already received $61,824 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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