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Former substitute teacher Young paid in $20K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $323K in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Brenda Young, who retired in November 2018, saved $19,752 toward a pension over 8 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Young would collect as much as $322,860, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Young received $6,786 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Young will have already received $20,976 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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