Greece debt crisis: The cost to pensioners
It is a scene that speaks of suffering and exhaustion, and one that may well become the lasting image of the Greek debt crisis.
An elderly man, sitting on the ground outside a bank, was photographed crying on Friday morning.
The image, taken in Thessaloniki by AFP's Sakis Mitrolidis, was widely shared on social media as soon as it was published.
The man, whose name was not published, was helped away soon after it was taken.
His story is not known, but those of plenty of other pensioners are.
Monthly pensions have gone down to an average of €833 ($924; £594) from an average of €1,350 in 2009, according to INE-GSEE, the institute behind Greece's biggest union.
When the Greek government announced that banks would shut for the week, starting last Monday, they put a cap on withdrawal from cash machines of €60 a day.
But that left many pensioners who did not have bank cards in the lurch.
On Wednesday, 1,000 bank branches re-opened to allow pensioners a one-off weekly withdrawal of €120: the equivalent of what those with bank cards could withdraw in two days.
Hundreds turned up at some branches. Those who could withdraw money had to make do with the €120 - before this week, they could withdraw their entire pension at once.
Reports said many pensioners waited outside branches from before dawn, only to be told withdrawals were being done alphabetically. Many were then asked to return on the following days.
Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, 70, was told by his bank that his pension was unavailable. "They told me they don't know when they will have the money and asked me to come again tomorrow just in case," he said.
"This situation is out of control."
How bad are things for Greece's pension fund?
- The amount of money held in pension funds has dropped hugely - down €25bn in the last five years, according to Greece's prime minister
- But more than a fifth of Greece's population are pensioners - a figure that's rising. Only two countries in Europe have a higher percentage
- Youth unemployment is 49.7% - so pension funds are not receiving enough new contributions from the working population
- In 2012, the last year for when statistics are available, Greece spent 17.5% of its GDP on pensions - compared to 7.3% in Ireland, for example
Greece has worked to reform its pension system over the last few years, and to weed out corrupt claims for money.
In August 2011, it was discovered that 1,473 people had received pensions totalling millions of dollars - despite being dead.
A series of reforms and tighter control on spending in recent years also led to improvements, with Greece spending 2% less of its GDP on pensions in 2014 than 2012 and, according to Allianz, it no longer has the world's poorest-performing pensions fund.
Is the Greek retirement age generous?
Average age of retirement for men in 2012
United States: 65
United Kingdom: 63.7
In exchange for getting more cash freed up, creditors want Greece to quickly phase out a top-up payment it gives to close to 200,000 of the country's poorest pensioners, something Athens has resisted.
Many feel enough is enough.
Zina Ravi, 79, relies entirely on her pension and says she is still in debt every month.
She is one of the high numbers of Greeks claiming a pension - and is having to help a middle-aged son who is now one of many unemployed Greeks.
"I am always in debt," she told Reuters. "I can't even imagine going to the cinema or the theatre like I did in the past."