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Galesburg Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state school employee Carr paid in $10K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $240K in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathryn Carr, who retired in June 2017, saved $10,440 toward a pension over 2 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carr would collect as much as $239,648, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Galesburg Reporter.

The projection assumes Carr received $5,037 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carr will have already received $15,569 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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