Originally Posted by djplong

Figmo - assuming you're talking about Congress, it is no longer true that they get full pensions afterone term. In fact that hasn't been the case since the 1980s if I remember what I read the last time a list of Congress' excesses was making the rounds. (Among other things, they DO pay into Social Security and have sone so since around 1984).

Congress is now in the FERS system - which is the exact same system that I and my employer (the USAF) pay into.