The Greek government miracoulasly stopped handing out 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. A report on capital.gr said that the government discovered the fraud after beginning basic data cross checks and means-testing, under pressure from its international lenders to cut its deficits and then terminated payments to families that continued to receive the pensions of their dead seniors. It also stopped benefits to wealthy recipients who had posed as poor to become eligible.