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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Former teacher Schreiner paid in $131K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.3M in retirement

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Former teacher Mary Schreiner, who retired in May 2016, saved $130,576 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schreiner would collect as much as $2.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Schreiner received $48,249 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schreiner will have already received $149,132 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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