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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former special education worker Terrell Cox paid in $141K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.09M in retirement

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Former special education worker Camelia Terrell Cox, who retired in August 2018, saved $141,221 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Terrell Cox would collect as much as $3.09 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Terrell Cox received $64,952 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Terrell Cox will have already received $200,761 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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