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Former state university employee Crawford paid in $5K to pension fund, could collect $268K in retirement

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Former state university employee Lucinda Crawford, who retired in March 2016, saved $5,235 toward a pension over 9 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Crawford would collect as much as $268,079, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Crawford received $5,634 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Crawford will have already received $5,634 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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