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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Former school nurse Swanson Lagesse paid in $139K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.28M in retirement

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Former school nurse Nancy Swanson Lagesse, who retired in October 2018, saved $139,288 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Swanson Lagesse would collect as much as $2.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Swanson Lagesse received $47,868 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Swanson Lagesse will have already received $147,955 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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