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Former state university employee Van Hoeck paid in $2K to pension fund, could collect $276K in retirement

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Former state university employee Kathlyn Van Hoeck, who retired in May 2017, saved $1,623 toward a pension over 2 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Van Hoeck would collect as much as $276,380, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Van Hoeck received $5,809 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Van Hoeck will have already received $5,809 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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