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Carbondale Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state university employee Disney paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $1.25M in retirement

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Former state university employee Kimberly Disney, who retired in December 2018, saved $51,009 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Disney would collect as much as $1.25 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Disney received $26,244 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Disney will have already received $53,275 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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