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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former state school employee Seitz paid in $83K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.55M in retirement

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Former state school employee Jeanne Seitz, who retired in May 2017, saved $83,079 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Seitz would collect as much as $1.55 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Galesburg Reporter.

The projection assumes Seitz received $32,620 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Seitz will have already received $100,826 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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