Who To Inform When Someone Dies
Other people to inform
As well as telling relatives and friends there are a number of other people/organisations to be informed.
The following people/organisations may be relevant but not necessarily comprehensive for everyone’s circumstances:
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- Employer/School/College
- Solicitor/Accountant
- Deceased’s Tax Office
- National Insurance Contributions office if they were self-employed (to cancel payments)
- Local council if the deceased paid rates, had a parking permit, was issued with a blue badge for disabled parking, received Social Service’s help or attended day care
- UK Passport Agency to cancel and return passport
- Local Authority of Landlord if deceased rented property
- DVA to return driving licence or cancel car tax
- The family doctor, district nurse, social worker, home-help, day- care centre and other healthcare providers (hospital, dentist etc)
- Insurance companies including car, travel, life, medical etc
- Pension providers
- Banks, Building Societies
- Mortgage provider
- Hire Purchase and/or Loan companies
- Credit card provider/store card
- Utility companies (electricity, gas etc)
- Royal Mail if mail requires redirecting
- Social groups or clubs to which the deceased belonged
- Creditors (anyone to whom the deceased owed money)
- Debtors (anyone who owed the deceased money)
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