Comment by Spooky23

The people in the village know, but the culture is such that they aren’t going to rat out the family for the fraud. The priest has nothing to do with the state bureaucracy.

That happens all over the place. People get busted for collecting grandmas social security checks all of the time in the US. When I was in college in the mid-90s, I rented an apartment from a dude who died in the early 80s.