It is hard to protect pensioners without unwelcome side-effects.
In future we face more and more pensioners without enough people of working age to support them.
The Station Inn has held its own in this down economy, Mr. Davis said, since many of its patrons are pensioners without car or house payments or children at home.
Hours after Greece's bailout programme with its creditors expired and the country became the first in the developed world to miss an IMF loan repayment, Greek pensioners without debit cards were at last able to withdraw some cash.
But, as this individual response ignores pensioners without household wealth, it will only serve to reinforce existing generational and social inequality – a major consequence of which is the increase in poor households and child poverty – rather than promote social mobility.
Pensioners without bank cards have been particularly hard hit as they have struggled to access their accounts.
Greeks cannot withdraw more than $66 a day from ATMs, and pensioners without ATM cards are allotted about $132 a week.
On Wednesday morning, the Greek government ordered banks to reopen to allow pensioners without ATM cards to make small cash withdrawals.
Older people have particularly suffered, and thousands of pensioners without debit cards crowded into banks on Wednesday to receive a one-time withdrawal of 120 euros intended to last them the week.
On Thursday, elderly Greeks, some struggling with walking sticks or being held up by others, formed large crowds outside the few banks opened to help pensioners without ATM cards get access to money.
