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Will County Gazette

Monday, April 14, 2025

Former state school employee Terese paid in $160K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.59M in retirement

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Former state school employee Linda Terese, who retired in May 2017, saved $160,293 toward a pension over 41 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Terese would collect as much as $3.59 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Terese received $75,508 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Terese will have already received $233,387 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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