What should be done with a financial grant that continued for four months after a person ceased working in a government department, knowing that returning it to the officials will not return it to the state?

If you receive a salary that you do not deserve and cannot return to your government entity, you must donate it to the poor and needy. Scholars have stipulated that money which is not lawful for a person and cannot be returned to its owner or to the authorities should be spent on the welfare of Muslims, especially if its possessor fears that the ruler might spend it on something unlawful.