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Former state school employee Keehn paid in $130K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.86M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kay Keehn, who retired in June 2016, saved $130,045 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Keehn would collect as much as $2.86 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Keehn received $60,034 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Keehn will have already received $185,559 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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