In a shock discovery by the Tribunal de Cuentas (Accounts Tribunal), it would appear that not even death is cause enough for Social Security to stop pension payments. It has been reported that in the year 2014, Social Security erroneously made monthly payments to some 29.321 persons who had already been registered by the Civil Registry as deceased. This means that an approximate sum of 25,2 million euros was paid out each month to the accounts of people who should obviously not be receiving it. The situation was not resolved by 2015 as 27.860 continued to be registered as pensioners on Social Security’s database.
