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Former state university employee Breen paid in $12K to pension fund, could collect $167K in retirement

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Former state university employee Melissa Breen, who retired in June 2016, saved $11,994 toward a pension over 5 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Breen would collect as much as $167,109, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Breen received $3,512 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Breen will have already received $14,693 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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