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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former bilingual teacher Martinez paid in $134K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.24M in retirement

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Former bilingual teacher Iris Martinez, who retired in April 2018, saved $133,676 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Martinez would collect as much as $2.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Martinez received $46,988 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Martinez will have already received $145,236 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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