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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Former state school employee Armstrong paid in $143K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.65M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ruth Armstrong, who retired in June 2016, saved $142,914 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Armstrong would collect as much as $2.65 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Armstrong received $55,600 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Armstrong will have already received $171,854 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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