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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Former state university employee Tonkin paid in $22K to pension fund, could collect $343K in retirement

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Former state university employee Patricia Tonkin, who retired in June 2017, saved $22,155 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tonkin would collect as much as $343,119, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Tonkin received $7,212 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tonkin will have already received $22,291 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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