Title: Fact check: AARP maintains nonpartisan stance
Headings: Fact check: AARP maintains nonpartisan stance, makes no political donations
Fact check: AARP maintains nonpartisan stance, makes no political donations
The claim: A portion of AARP customer payments go to Democrats
What is AARP?
AARP stays out of politics
Our rating: False
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Content: AARP is an interest group whose mission is to "empower people to choose how they live as they age" and focuses on related issues, like social security or health care, with almost 40 million members nationwide. The group is also a social welfare — or 501 (c) (4) — tax-exempt organization. In order to receive and maintain this status, "an organization must not be organized for profit and must be operated exclusively to promote social welfare. The earnings of a section 501 (c) (4) organization may not inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual," according to the IRS. More: Fact check: What's true and what's false about face masks? AARP stays out of politics
The group's policy on political or partisan activity acknowledges its nonpartisan status and states, "AARP must maintain a nonpartisan stance with respect to candidates, current government officials, political parties and public events." "AARP is strictly nonpartisan," Jason Young, AARP's senior vice president of external relations said, further noting that nonpartisanship is a standard at AARP — and also the law. Young pointed to the fact that AARP's chief operating officer signs tax filings annually — under penalty of perjury — confirming that “AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization empowering people to choose how they live as they age.”