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Former teacher Woods paid in $42K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $607K in retirement

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Former teacher Denise Woods, who retired in January 2018, saved $42,190 toward a pension over 8 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Woods would collect as much as $607,348, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Woods received $12,766 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Woods will have already received $53,407 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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