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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Former state university employee Shelvy paid in $84K to pension fund, could collect $1.4M in retirement

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Former state university employee Patricia Shelvy, who retired in June 2016, saved $84,206 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shelvy would collect as much as $1.4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shelvy received $29,478 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shelvy will have already received $91,113 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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