00:00Mark Cuban calls out the government for cutting phone support and closing social security offices as a financial trap for seniors.
00:07Under a new federal overhaul, seniors can no longer call for help.
00:10Many in-person locations are being shut down.
00:13To access their benefits, they're now expected to go online, whether they can or not.
00:17Millions of elderly Americans don't own smartphones, don't use the internet, and don't have transportation to get to another office.
00:23Mark Cuban says this isn't modernization, it's targeted exclusion.
00:27The benefit system stays intact on paper, but the people it's supposed to serve are effectively being locked out.
00:32This isn't about efficiency, it's about making access so difficult people quietly fall through the cracks.
00:38Social security is being digitally walled off from the very people it was built to support.
00:42Cuban calls it horrific, and for millions of seniors, that's not an exaggeration.
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