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Former state school employee Ludlum paid in $140K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.18M in retirement

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Former state school employee Linda Ludlum, who retired in May 2016, saved $139,953 toward a pension over 39 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ludlum would collect as much as $3.18 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Ludlum received $66,912 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ludlum will have already received $206,818 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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