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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Former state school employee Green paid in $189K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.07M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Green, who retired in May 2018, saved $189,472 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Green would collect as much as $4.07 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Green received $85,559 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Green will have already received $264,455 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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