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Former teacher Miranda paid in $110K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.06M in retirement

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Former teacher Maria Miranda, who retired in July 2018, saved $110,302 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Miranda would collect as much as $2.06 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Miranda received $43,259 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Miranda will have already received $133,710 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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