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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former substitute teacher Welters paid in $71K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.21M in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Ednina Welters, who retired in June 2018, saved $71,250 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Welters would collect as much as $1.21 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Welters received $25,524 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Welters will have already received $78,893 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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