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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former bilingual teacher Oquendo paid in $132K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.8M in retirement

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Former bilingual teacher Nereida Oquendo, who retired in July 2018, saved $131,614 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Oquendo would collect as much as $2.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Oquendo received $58,838 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Oquendo will have already received $181,862 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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