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Former special education worker Reed paid in $150K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.88M in retirement

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Former special education worker Jerome Reed, who retired in July 2016, saved $149,993 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Reed would collect as much as $2.88 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Reed received $60,544 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Reed will have already received $187,135 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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