Lin Qi rubbed his eyes.
He had read a report saying that ever since Pension Insurance had been established, some people and institutions had been making use of it for their own ends.
Back when he was still in the surface world, the Federal Government had solved a bizarre case. The person who reported it was a volunteer.
The volunteer had been assigned to do unpaid work at a nursing home, but the Director refused to let her work there and promised to issue her a certificate proving that she had completed the assignment—
This actually proved one thing: the vast majority of volunteers were not volunteering willingly. Federal law stipulated that certain people had to perform community service as punishment for their past mistakes.
Some people believed that community service could help those who had committed crimes or made serious mistakes return to normal life.
The volunteer thought this was strange, so she reported it to the police. The police then discovered more than seventy corpses of elderly people at the nursing home, along with more than ten elderly people who were barely clinging to life.
All of those elderly people had pensions they could collect. Their families had sold them to the nursing home outright, after which the nursing home had collected their pensions on their behalf.
Even after they died, the nursing home had not reported their deaths, much less told anyone about them.
Instead, it had secretly buried them in the yard and continued collecting the pensions the government paid them every month.
As for whether the nursing home had been suspected of murdering the elderly people, the case had no further developments. But surely not all of them had died of natural causes.
The case was not particularly major, but it at least showed that