Egyptian army bureaucracy demanded repayment of pensions to dead soldiers’ families

Evidence

See for example the case of the widow who was asked to return thirty-five months’ pay that she received as her dead husband’s salary on the grounds that her husband had died since then but the army authorities were not informed in time to stop delivering to her her husband’s pay; Awamir lil-Jihadiyya 1/219, on 24 S 1254/20 May 1838. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1185

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the administrative cruelty literature — Kafka’s bureaucratic indifference to individual lives.