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Former substitute teacher Ortega Ramirez paid in $37K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $484K in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Sofia Ortega Ramirez, who retired in December 2018, saved $36,670 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ortega Ramirez would collect as much as $484,376, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ortega Ramirez received $10,181 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Ortega Ramirez will have already received $42,593 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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