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Monday, April 28, 2025

Former state school employee Lynch paid in $139K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.93M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ellyn Lynch, who retired in June 2016, saved $138,826 toward a pension over 28 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lynch would collect as much as $2.93 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Lynch received $61,657 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lynch will have already received $190,576 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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