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Former substitute teacher McDonald paid in $26K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $357K in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Maureen McDonald, who retired in June 2018, saved $25,772 toward a pension over 7 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McDonald would collect as much as $357,308, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McDonald received $7,510 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, McDonald will have already received $31,418 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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