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Former state school employee Rust paid in $112K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.7M in retirement

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Former state school employee Leann Rust, who retired in May 2018, saved $111,908 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rust would collect as much as $2.7 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes NW Illinois News.

The projection assumes Rust received $56,702 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Rust will have already received $115,105 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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