dead-pay

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Continued pay dishonestly drawn for soldiers and sailors actually dead; a person in whose name pay is so drawn.

Wiktionary

1. n. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
2. n. A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.