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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state school employee Bouse paid in $155K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.33M in retirement

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Former state school employee Debbie Bouse, who retired in May 2017, saved $155,312 toward a pension over 36 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bouse would collect as much as $3.33 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Bouse received $69,952 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bouse will have already received $216,216 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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