Marjorie Taylor Greene will qualify for a congressional pension - by a matter of days - after she resigns from office
Source: The Independent
Friday 28 November 2025 14:51 EST
Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene will be eligible for her congressional pension after she steps down in January, by a matter of days. The Republican firebrand announced last week that she would prematurely exit her job as the House representative for Georgia’s 14th congressional district.
“I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026,” she wrote at the end of a four-page statement. According to the National Taxpayers Union, members of Congress qualify for a congressional pension if they have served five full years in Congress.
Greene arrived in Congress on January 3, 2021, meaning that she will be just over the five-year minimum when she leaves. This does not mean that Greene, 51, would receive her pension immediately. Members of Congress are eligible for their pensions once they hit the age of 62.
The annual congressional salary is $174,000 and members of Congress receive 1 percent of their salary annually as part of their pension. If a member has 20 years of service, and serves until the age of 62, they receive 1.1 percent of their salary as a pension.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mtg-congressional-pension-resignation-house-b2874557.html
I think a number of people have already noted that about her timing (and I have chimed in that in contrast to MTG, George Santos was booted before getting the eligible number of years, meaning serving at least 2.5 terms).
But what the article left out, is that since the more recent crop of members are on FERS (which was only mentioned later in the article), like the more recent civil service employees who were on-boarded since around the mid-80s when FERS first rolled out, she is ALSO going to get Social Security (assuming she has accumulated 40 quarters based on past and future work history, by the time she has the age), because they pay into that too. So their retirement is a little bit "annuity", and the rest is from whatever they invested into the TSP (Thrift Savings Plan) + Social Security.
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would find their heads exploding with the "MRA" stuff! 
I am on CSRS-Offset as I started ahead of the FERS transition, so I am not on FERS but on a CSRS annuity that is offset to accommodate a SS component that can be applied for and collected by a retiree starting at age 62. In my case, I had a SS payroll tax taken out of my salary, plus a CSRS contribution taken out. Regardless of whether SS would be applied for (later or at all), in the CSRS-Offset situation, the CSRS annuity component would still be reduced once the retiree hits 62.
The legacy "all-CSRS" people had no SS taken out at all during federal employment (and there are a handful still in Congress, e.g., Hoyer and Grassley), who came in under CSRS. But if they have enough quarters from other jobs - before or after federal employment, then they can FINALLY add that SS income when they retire, as those in that category had the penalizing WEP and GPO laws applied to them, negating their ability to collect both, and those negating provisions were repealed recently through - H.R.82 - Social Security Fairness Act of 2023)