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Monday, July 21, 2025

Former state university employee Fulk paid in $89K to pension fund, could collect $1.91M in retirement

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Former state university employee Della Fulk, who retired in August 2016, saved $88,715 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Fulk would collect as much as $1.91 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Fulk received $40,140 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Fulk will have already received $124,068 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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