My grandmother's 100 year old pension just ended...

I just wanted to get some thoughts on the following topic from reddit. She was a German citizen and worked from the age of 14 until 55 in Germany in the 1920s-30s. She got married and immigrated to the United States and she received a German pension for 60+ years, she would get about $1000/mo over the years. She died at 105 years old.<br><br>Her husband passed away 4 years before her and they had 4 children, all of the children passed away before her too.<br><br>Last year, her grandkids(my cousins) hired a lawyer to sue the German government for her pension, it would pay out a lump sum and no more payments after that. They won the lawsuit and she received a lump sum equal to 12 years of payments, which was basically split in half to her estate and to pay the lawyer. She ended up getting just over $30k from the lump sum.<br><br>She passed away last week, she had no money in the bank, no assets, she had been living off a combination of social security and the lump sum from the pension.<br><br>My question is: Am I overreacting to this? The money was promised to her for the rest of her life, now it's gone.