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Former special education worker Knight paid in $161K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.21M in retirement

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Former special education worker Donna Knight, who retired in July 2018, saved $161,482 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Knight would collect as much as $3.21 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Knight received $67,562 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Knight will have already received $208,828 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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