When someone dies you will need to contact a wide variety of organisations to inform them of the death. Here are just some of those you may need to contact, you may have to send them a death certificate:
- vehicle registration
- driving licence
- passport
- motoring insurance
- motoring breakdown policy
- household insurance
- life assurance
- pension plans
- bank
- building society
- credit card companies
- utilities (gas, electricity, water, telephone)
- employees? employers
- council tax
- benefit agency
- income tax
- mortgage
- internet provider
- child(ren)s school or childcare provider
- doctors
- dentists
- hospital clinics
- private health care provider
- solicitor
Please note this is not an exhaustive list and each case will have different officials, organisations and people to advise.
It is important to note that if the deceased owned a vehicle then it may be no-one now has insurance cover to drive it. Many policies state that a vehicle may be driven by someone else with the owner’s permission but as soon as the owner dies any such permission may cease. Contact the car insurance company before anyone drives the vehicle to make sure they are covered.