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Carbondale Reporter

Monday, July 21, 2025

Former state university employee Lavin paid in $33K to pension fund, could collect $523K in retirement

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Former state university employee Terri Lavin, who retired in November 2018, saved $32,705 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lavin would collect as much as $522,948, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Lavin received $10,992 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lavin will have already received $33,976 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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