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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Former state school employee Peterson paid in $2K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $52K in retirement

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Former state school employee Terry Peterson, who retired in March 2018, saved $1,854 toward a pension over 1 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Peterson would collect as much as $51,912, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.

The projection assumes Peterson received $1,091 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Peterson will have already received $2,215 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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