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Death notification services let you inform multiple organisations with one notification. Life Ledger and DNS notify banks and utilities free. Tell Us Once notifies government departments. Upload death certificate once, select companies, track responses online. Saves hours of individual calls.
Death notification services help you inform multiple organisations about a death with a single notification. After registering the death and obtaining death certificates, these services can save you hours of phone calls and paperwork during a difficult time.
Free service that notifies banks, utilities, and other companies.
UK Finance initiative for financial services.
In March 2026, FuneralExperts.com announced a partnership with NotifyNOW and InheritNOW to create a one-stop notification service capable of reaching over 2,000 financial institutions — banks, building societies, pension providers, insurance companies, and more — through a single submission.
This complements the government's Tell Us Once service (which covers government departments only) and the existing Death Notification Service (which focuses on UK Finance member banks). Together, these services mean that for many families, you may not need to contact each organisation individually.
The practical advice: use Tell Us Once for government departments, the Death Notification Service or Life Ledger for banks and financial institutions, and check whether a broader aggregator service (such as the FuneralExperts/NotifyNOW partnership) covers the specific organisations you need to notify.
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Death notification services like Life Ledger and the Death Notification Service (DNS) allow you to inform multiple organisations about a death with a single notification. You create an account, provide details about the deceased, upload required documents, select which companies to notify, and track responses through an online portal.
Life Ledger is completely free to use and covers over 1,000 companies. The Death Notification Service (DNS) from UK Finance is also free for notifying banks and building societies that participate in the scheme.
You'll need a certified copy of the death certificate, your identification, proof of your authority to act (such as a will or grant of probate), account numbers for services being cancelled, and recent bills or statements from the organisations you're notifying.
No, death notification services complement Tell Us Once but don't replace it. Tell Us Once notifies government departments like HMRC, DWP and DVLA. Death notification services handle private sector organisations like banks, utilities, and insurance companies.
Participating banks and organisations typically process death notifications within 10 working days. You can track progress through the online portal, and should follow up if you receive no response within this timeframe.
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