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Former special education worker Edinburg paid in $138K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.78M in retirement

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Former special education worker Kevin Edinburg, who retired in July 2018, saved $138,219 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Edinburg would collect as much as $1.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Edinburg received $37,514 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Edinburg will have already received $156,943 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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