Claim: The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
Fact-check: Do 73 percent of benefits from mortgage deduction go to those earning $250,000 a year?
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2014-12-17T00:00:00