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Friday, April 18, 2025

Former elementary teacher Collin paid in $25K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $371K in retirement

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Former elementary teacher Carla Collin, who retired in June 2016, saved $24,701 toward a pension over 8 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Collin would collect as much as $370,830, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Collin received $7,794 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Collin will have already received $32,608 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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