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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee England paid in $53K to pension fund, could collect $885K in retirement

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Former state university employee Darletta England, who retired in March 2017, saved $52,744 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, England would collect as much as $885,016, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes England received $18,602 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, England will have already received $57,497 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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