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Former state school employee Tomeczko paid in $113K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.92M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christine Tomeczko, who retired in January 2019, saved $112,787 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tomeczko would collect as much as $1.92 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Tomeczko received $40,313 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tomeczko will have already received $124,603 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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