Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, their pension?

Fraudsters have stolen $1.6 million by claiming the pensions of dead family members. The frauds by widows, children, and grandchildren were on average NZ$105,000 each and some of the frauds have been going on since at least 1995. This was done by forging signatures on superannuation forms to show that the relatives are alive, however, claiming false pension payments is meant to be impossible because in 2004, the Ministry of Social Development began matching data with data in the Department of Internal Affairs, which manages death records, to ensure "dead" people were not claiming benefits. And yet, some bellends still do it, and 15 have pleaded guilty to various criminal charges. Death of a relative is not nice for anybody to experience and I realise that it's a great idea to make the best of a bad situation, but taking advantage of a death in such an unethical manner is not what I had in mind.