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Former part-time teacher Ranos paid in $109K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.89M in retirement

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Former part-time teacher Diane Ranos, who retired in October 2018, saved $109,189 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ranos would collect as much as $1.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ranos received $39,658 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ranos will have already received $122,579 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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