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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former special education worker Hintz paid in $141K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.44M in retirement

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Former special education worker Linda Hintz, who retired in July 2018, saved $141,029 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hintz would collect as much as $2.44 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Hintz received $51,373 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hintz will have already received $158,788 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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