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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Former teacher Richardson paid in $43K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $617K in retirement

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Former teacher Ronald Richardson, who retired in May 2016, saved $43,446 toward a pension over 9 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Richardson would collect as much as $616,626, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Richardson received $12,961 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Richardson will have already received $54,226 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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