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Former state university employee Monegain paid in $20K to pension fund, could collect $417K in retirement

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Former state university employee Lawrence Monegain, who retired in August 2016, saved $20,042 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Monegain would collect as much as $416,560, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Monegain received $8,755 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Monegain will have already received $27,062 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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