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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Former bilingual teacher Rivera paid in $107K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.29M in retirement

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Former bilingual teacher Margarita Rivera, who retired in January 2016, saved $106,704 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rivera would collect as much as $1.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Rivera received $27,021 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Rivera will have already received $113,047 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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