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7 October
6:32 pm

seven hundred thousand Iowan seniors deserve to have this earned benefit

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Josh Turek, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate

6:32 pm
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Why we checked itThe specific figure of 700,000 Iowa seniors receiving Social Security benefits is a verifiable statistic that could be checked against SSA data.
What we foundThe figure of 700,000 matches the total number of Iowa Social Security beneficiaries of all ages, but the population of Iowa seniors aged 65 and older is approximately 570,000–650,000, making '700,000 Iowan seniors' an overstatement.
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