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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former special education worker Crockett paid in $148K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.25M in retirement

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Former special education worker Joyce Crockett, who retired in July 2018, saved $148,445 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Crockett would collect as much as $2.25 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Crockett received $47,215 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Crockett will have already received $197,529 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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