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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Former teacher Tenuta paid in $75K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.33M in retirement

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Former teacher Barbara Tenuta, who retired in January 2016, saved $75,044 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tenuta would collect as much as $1.33 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Tenuta received $27,964 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tenuta will have already received $86,434 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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