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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Former teacher Belt paid in $132K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.96M in retirement

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Former teacher Louise Belt, who retired in December 2016, saved $132,301 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Belt would collect as much as $2.96 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Belt received $62,275 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Belt will have already received $192,485 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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