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Friday, April 4, 2025

Former state school employee Clifford paid in $102K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.05M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Clifford, who retired in June 2017, saved $101,975 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Clifford would collect as much as $2.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Clifford received $43,023 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Clifford will have already received $132,980 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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