ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has stopped various benefits, including pensions, to 200,000 people who lied to get their monthly cheques or were in fact dead, a Greek Labour Ministry official said on Wednesday. The number is roughly 2 percent of the Greek population. Debt-laden Athens discovered the fraud after beginning basic data cross checks and means-testing, under pressure from its international lenders to cut its deficits. The government terminated payments to families that continued to receive the pensions of their dead seniors. …
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