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Former instructional support worker Shannon paid in $69K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.12M in retirement

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Former instructional support worker Venus Shannon, who retired in November 2018, saved $68,703 toward a pension over 9 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shannon would collect as much as $1.12 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shannon received $23,581 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shannon will have already received $72,886 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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