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Former state school employee Smith paid in $269K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.9M in retirement

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Former state school employee Dennis Smith, who retired in July 2017, saved $268,544 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Smith would collect as much as $4.9 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Southern Illinois News.

The projection assumes Smith received $103,093 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Smith will have already received $318,651 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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