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Former special education worker Bulsok paid in $111K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.11M in retirement

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Former special education worker Patricia Bulsok, who retired in July 2018, saved $110,813 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bulsok would collect as much as $2.11 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Bulsok received $44,310 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bulsok will have already received $136,957 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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