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Carbondale Reporter

Monday, July 21, 2025

Former state school employee Carter paid in $135K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.13M in retirement

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Former state school employee Deanna Carter, who retired in March 2017, saved $135,393 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carter would collect as much as $3.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Carter received $65,737 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carter will have already received $203,186 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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