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To address the shortage, Illinois law allows retired teachers to return and work for up to 120 days or 600 hours without jeopardizing their pension benefits. The limit is designed to prevent retirees from “double-dipping,” or receiving a TRS pension and full-time salary in a TRS-covered pension.
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Public schools in Illinois have about 180 student attendance days.
So teachers in retirement can continue to be substitute teachers for about 67%, or 2/3rds (120/180 days) of their pre-retirement attendance day workload.
The collective bargaining agreement between the school district and the teacher union local, which is posted on the website of each school district, contains the details of a teacher’s workload.
One of the main arguments the teacher unions (IEA/IFT) made to justify lowering the teacher retirement age was to increase the quality of education.