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Harry Reid on Social Security

Voted NO on Social Security Lockbox & limiting national debt. (Apr 1999)
Voted NO on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees. (May 1998)
Voted NO on allowing personal retirement accounts. (Apr 1998)
Voted NO on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes. (May 1996)
by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)

http://activote.ontheissues.org/AVA/Senate/Harry_Reid.htm

Members of Congress are covered under one of four different retirement arrangements, financed through a combination of employee and employer contributions:

• Full coverage under both CSRS and Social Security;
• The "CSRS Offset" plan, which includes both CSRS and Social
Security, but with CSRS contributions and benefits reduced by the amount of their
Social Security contributions and benefits;
• FERS (Federal Employees' Retirement System) plus Social Security; or
• Social Security alone.

Senators and Members of Congress covered by FERS also pay 1.3% of full salary to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Members covered by the CSRS Offset pay 1.8% of the first $87,900 of salary, and 8.0% of salary above this amount, into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan department of the Library of Congress, as of October 1, 2002, 411 retired Members of Congress were receiving federal pensions based fully or in part on their congressional service. Of this number, 340 had retired under CSRS and were receiving an average annual pension of $55,788. Seventy-one Members had retired either with service under both CSRS and FERS or with service under FERS only, and their average annual pension was $41,856.

http://reed.senate.gov/socialsecuritymyth.htm