What precisely is your point? There are various benefits not contingent on age, so while it is concerning, it by no means would by itself invalidate someone's entitlement in receiving the checks. There is probably some interface or was, for a period, a bug that meant nulls were entering the db, or something of that nature. This needs to be fixed if it still exists, and the data needs to be made true.
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So how do they know the age of someone who has incomplete records like that? Take their word for it? That sounds like trouble.
What would invalidate the benefits is death. This 150 year old business is a corner case obviously, so finding those dead people is not so easy. I'd assume there are more checks issued to dead people who were never reported than dead people who were properly recorded as dead. I don't know the frequency of fraud in either case but one is easier to get away with than the other.