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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Former state school employee Benning paid in $88K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.45M in retirement

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Former state school employee Leonard Benning, who retired in June 2017, saved $88,323 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Benning would collect as much as $1.45 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Benning received $30,402 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Benning will have already received $93,969 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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