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Friday, April 26, 2024

Former special education worker Cogan paid in $67K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1M in retirement

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Former special education worker Kathryn Cogan, who retired in February 2019, saved $67,270 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cogan would collect as much as $1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Cogan received $21,053 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Cogan will have already received $88,080 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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