Tell Us Once

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When someone close to you has died, there are a lot of things that need to be done at a time when you least feel like doing them.

Tell Us Once is part of a nationwide project led by the Department for Work and Pensions, and is designed to make it easier for the public to inform the necessary authorities and departments about a death.

In Suffolk, the information can be shared with a number of central and local government departments including:

Housing benefit office
Council tax
Council Tax benefit office
Libraries
Blue badges
Adult and children's services
Council housing
Department for Work and Pensions
HM Revenue and Customs
Identity and passport service
Driver and vehicle Licensing Agency
Ministry of Defence, Service personnel Veterans' Agency

Previously, once a statutory death registration had been completed, you would have to contact all the local and national government agencies to inform them of the death.

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