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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state school employee Lindner paid in $115K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.03M in retirement

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Former state school employee Cathy Lindner, who retired in May 2018, saved $115,214 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lindner would collect as much as $2.03 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Lindner received $42,680 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lindner will have already received $131,919 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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