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Former state school employee Corson paid in $90K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.5M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christine Corson, who retired in May 2016, saved $89,788 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Corson would collect as much as $1.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Corson received $31,542 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Corson will have already received $97,493 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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