What Spock meant: "Live Long and . . . Collect Your Father's Pension"

From the New York Times yesterday,

�the police found the body of a man thought to be one of Japan�s oldest, at 111 years, mummified in his bed, dead for more than three decades. His daughter, now 81, hid his death to continue collecting his monthly pension payments, the police said.�

�To date, the authorities have been unable to find more than 281 Japanese who had been listed in records as 100 years old or older.�

Huh? What?

Can there possibly maybe potentially be Japanese 90 or older who are deceased but still collecting pension? 80 or older? 70 or older?

Say it ain�t so, Ito! Say it ain't so!