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Carbondale Reporter

Monday, July 21, 2025

Former state school employee Boren paid in $25K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $279K in retirement

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Former state school employee Amy Boren, who retired in August 2017, saved $24,761 toward a pension over 4 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Boren would collect as much as $278,550, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Boren received $5,854 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 5 years of retirement, Boren will have already received $31,081 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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