athens several hundred elderly greeks march athens thursday protest government say take everything new round cut pension crumble health care benefit greece three bailouts since 2010 repeatedly take aim pension system cut push nearly half elderly poverty line incomes less 600 euros 710.70 month nearly quarter workforce unemployed quarter children live poverty benefit slash parent grow dependent grandparents handouts cut pension greeks see monthly cheque fall 40 50 percent seven years rent utility bill health care barely make end meet never see country state even war say 80-year-old nikos georgiadis former hotel employee whose pension reduce 40 percent pensioners impoverish afford buy medicine look food trash say lean tree catch breath new change pension regulations mean cut expect 2019. pensioners also pay pocket health care fotini karavidou 75-year-old retire accountant join march wheelchair say cut back everything afford medicine simple many pensioners afford eat buy medicine say yiannis karadimas 67 head local pensioners association karadimas say joke government legalise marijuana medical purpose cut back health care spend kill us mock us time say popularity prime minister alexis tsipras wan since first elections 2015. effort rebuild public support government give greece 1.3 million pensioners one-off christmas bonus last year worth 300 500 euros handouts fail whip obvious increase support pensioners take streets time recent months 2,000 people join thursday march unfortunately vote turn big liars georgiadis pensioner say government promise us everything take everything 0.8442 euros greek pensioners protest government 'took everything