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Monday, April 28, 2025

Former state university employee Twardowski paid in $85K to pension fund, could collect $1.59M in retirement

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Former state university employee Eileen Twardowski, who retired in January 2018, saved $85,306 toward a pension over 32 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Twardowski would collect as much as $1.59 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Illinois Valley Times.

The projection assumes Twardowski received $33,494 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Twardowski will have already received $103,527 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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