in other words, you assume... don't forget culture and upbringing is one hell of a drug.

perhaps they are fully aware, and the minimal amount of abuse is the price they're willing to pay to avoid "discrepancies" like the one from the article.

How much do you think live selfies where you have to wink cost? How much effort do you think that is for people? People who have to "ask their children" for help*? Maybe 1% of the cost of the program? if fraud is already less than 1% or even near it. seems like a great deal to me.

*: if you're the kind of person that believes "ask your children for help", so you can prove to us you're not guilty, is reasonable. You're what's wrong with the world, please resign.*

while social responsibility is one of the main reasons why this does not happen there are several: we have a central people registry of all people eligible to pension. so if a dead person is registered at a hospital, it automatically propagates to all systems (without the issues mentioned in the article).

the amount of registration and control happening to Danish people (with their consent) is inconceivable to the US mentality.

your can not probate an estate without registering a person as deceased.

But I am actually curious on how people steal deceased people's pensions? what happens when it is realized that the person is dead? (eg. by turning 180 years old).

in Denmark all pensions would have been paid out to the pensioners bank account. if somebody withdraw or transferred from that account, they would be caught an prosecuted.

because of this, I guess most people doing this would get caught.