Yes you are right, if it is not a spouse, mother or father, minor or disabled children the government will not give the pension to another member of the family. In these cases the pension benefit is lost and the government keeps it.Your country's government wants the family of the deceased to take full control of the left over wealths, owed by the government. Their is no time where the family of the deceased will be left out as next of kin for an outsider, that's impossible.