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Friday, April 19, 2024

Former teacher Ballesteros paid in $113K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.98M in retirement

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Former teacher Leobardo Ballesteros, who retired in July 2018, saved $113,448 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ballesteros would collect as much as $1.98 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ballesteros received $41,634 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ballesteros will have already received $128,686 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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