I’m in the US and haven’t been back there in decades, so excuse the potentially dumb question. My dad passed away two months ago, he lived here too but would visit Peru every year or so. He worked there for many years so he received a pension at a bank, he gave a trusted family member there access to help facilitate transfers. We haven’t notified the consulate here about my dad’s passing yet so it hasn’t been registered in Peru, the account is still open and money is still being deposited- frankly I have so much going on I completely forgot about this. The relative with access to it ended up withdrawing most of the money without asking us first today and now I’m in the pickle that I’m sure the government will want at least the money they deposited after my dad passed back, same Social Security did here. He is claiming that there is no way that he can deposit the money back, that he’d need power of attorney letters and who knows what else. I’m thinking that is absolute BS. I would have assumed that withdrawing the money would’ve have been the difficult part, not making a deposit back. Is this true?? Also, would the government want only the money deposited post death back, or all of it that was in the savings account deposited prior to his death? I don’t want to be held responsible for paying back that money after it’s been spent.