>Did you also have this issue back then?
>http://factcheck.org/2010/10/stimulating-the-dead/

Stimulus never came in form of checks, and never to a person - it was doled out to enterprises (or, as they were called in '74-'91, basic organizations of associated labor), usually to cover their losses or to invest.

But there were other Gogolian tricks - the registries during the war being sparse, mostly burned or lost, at some point the only way to prove you were owed a fighter's retirement (for being in the partisans during the WWII) was by two witnesses. An amazing number of trios came to witness for each other... while, OTOH, regularly collecting German or Italian retirements for being in their service at the time. Someone wondered that the war wasn't finished by 1943, if we had so many fighters surviving to the end.