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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Tucker paid in $56K to pension fund, could collect $999K in retirement

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Former state university employee Myra Tucker, who retired in January 2016, saved $55,706 toward a pension over 24 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tucker would collect as much as $998,507, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Tucker received $20,987 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tucker will have already received $64,870 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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