BREAKING: Horrifying analysis reveals that millions of American seniors will soon have to drive for hours just to access their Social Security benefits thanks to brutal changes made by Donald Trump. This is a despicable new low for MAGA... Starting April 14th, the Social Security Administration will require retirement benefit applicants and those who want to update direct deposit to either apply online or in person at a field office. Phone services, which are used by 4 in 10 benefit applicants, will be eliminated. Worst of all, nearly 6 million seniors currently live more than 46.6 mile rounds trip from the closet SSA field office, which amounts to more than twice the average distance that most seniors travel in a day. The trip will be unavoidable for some seniors. For example, 46% of seniors in Alaska live even further than 46.6 miles from a fired office — some as many as hundreds of miles — and 60,000 lack internet access. Some benefits, including survivors' claims, won't be permitted to be filed online, forcing grieving families to made the arduous trip to a nearby field office. As if that weren't bad enough, MAGA oligarch Elon Musk's DOGE plans on closing dozens of Social Security offices this year, making it even harder for seniors to access their benefits. Musk has falsely smeared Social Security, which keeps millions of seniors out of poverty and off the streets, as the "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time." All of this cruelty has a purpose. Republicans want to weaken Social Security and eventually dismantle it entirely, so that they can privatize it with an inferior service at inflated prices. As usual, MAGA policies boil down to naked greed.