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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former substitute teacher Schoenhoff paid in $40K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $704K in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Andrea Schoenhoff, who retired in May 2018, saved $39,703 toward a pension over 14 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schoenhoff would collect as much as $703,787, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Schoenhoff received $14,793 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schoenhoff will have already received $45,724 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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