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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Former state school employee Miller paid in $123K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.49M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sandra Miller, who retired in June 2017, saved $122,668 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Miller would collect as much as $2.49 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Miller received $52,337 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Miller will have already received $161,768 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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