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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former bilingual teacher Ivanova paid in $123K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.97M in retirement

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Former bilingual teacher Boyanka Ivanova, who retired in May 2018, saved $122,854 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ivanova would collect as much as $1.97 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ivanova received $41,309 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ivanova will have already received $127,681 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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