Greek pensioners’ growing frustration over access to funds – in pictures

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  An employee checks the identification and bank booklet of a pensioner before being allowed to enter a bank branch in Thessaloniki. Giannis Papanikos / AP Photo

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  Pensioners queue outside a bank branch to withdraw €120, the maximum amount they were allowed to take by the finance ministry. Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP

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  Pensioners who do not own ATM cards argue with a bank employee in Athens. Orestis Panagiotou / EPA

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  Pensioners line up as they wait for their turn to withdraw a maximum €120 for the week. Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo

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  Of 2.5 million retired Greeks, 45 per cent live below the poverty line of €665 a month, the government said recently. Above, an employee tries to maintain order at an Alpha Bank in Athens. Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

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  Pensions are the sole source of income in many Greek families. Milos Bicanski / Getty Images

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  The Greek finance ministry said 850 bank branches opened on Wednesday where pensioners would be the only customers. Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters

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  A customers holds a ticket number while waiting for permission to enter an open branch of Piraeus Bank in Athens. Simon Dawson / Bloomberg

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  Pensioners who do not own ATM cards queue to enter a bank branch to withdraw part of their pensions. Stefanos Rapanis / EPA

Greek banks struggled on Tuesday to arrange payments to hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped pensioners who were growing frustrated over successive announcements cutting the amounts they would be allowed to withdraw.