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If anybody was curious, the states that already had this prior to 2020 are:

Maine, Vermont, and Florida

Since 2020: Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia now also qualify.

Montana is a bit of a surprise there... so is Oregon for me.

Source: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/older-ad...

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I'm from the west coast and oregon has always seemed to have large populations of retirees in the more rural areas. My grandparents considered moving there when I was young. Also seems that oregon has a large "self-selecting" population where folks move there from out-of-state

Yeah, they keep stating how "% counties" also qualify but they're almost all rural sparsely populated counties. Must be a retiree thing or "I grew up here and not leaving" thing.

Florida being on that list made so much sense lol.

This is exactly what I was wondering, thank you! They kept saying 11 states already have this, but I couldn't figure out which 11.

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