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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Former state school employee Hankins paid in $175K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.37M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christine Hankins, who retired in May 2016, saved $175,138 toward a pension over 36 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hankins would collect as much as $4.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Illinois Valley Times.

The projection assumes Hankins received $91,812 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Hankins will have already received $186,378 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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