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Former teacher Deguzman paid in $130K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.28M in retirement

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Former teacher Linda Deguzman, who retired in July 2016, saved $130,221 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Deguzman would collect as much as $2.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Deguzman received $47,879 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Deguzman will have already received $147,988 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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