...ya can't but da gubmint could confiscate ya money in case they had a rainy day, or even a cloudy day.
...another thing, in case ya don't know it, whenever somebody dies and goes to a funeral home, the funeral home folks (and probably others) are required to notify the social security administration so they can cut off ya social security check. How hard would it be for em to just confiscate whatever ya had left over and let ya progeny try to get it back.
...I don't believe in a lot of conspiracies, but I do believe that there is no end to the greed and corruption of government and that there is no amount of money so small nor no victim so pitiful that it is beneath the governments dignity to steal it.
Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!