Not surprising. Just think of all the social security payments that relatives of the deceased continue to pocket (I know of such a case; the guy eventually was caught depositing his dead mother's payments).
In Pa. and W.Va., the Democrat secretaries of state are busily trying to register dead people to vote, so there's really nothing new under the sun. We received a postcard, addressed to my late brother-in-law, urging him to register. It arrived two years + one day after his death.