Death Certificate (interim) copies?

tiggerbodhi

Hi,
Ex wife has died and helping my daughter deal with her affairs, due to the circumstances of the death (sudden and at home alone) an inquest is to be held, an interim Death Certificate is to be issued.


We need to provide a death certificate to the pension company for any potential death in service benefit, assume they will need an "original" not a copy of the certificate, but the coroner only appears to send one.


Can we ask for further copies of this from the Coroner? or do we post the original, wait for it to come back, then send it to the bank to close her account etc?


There are few that will need to see the certificate as my daughter is only next of kin and is not administering the estate as it is insolvent, the advice has been to leave well alone.


Thanks is advance for your help!

g6jns_2

tiggerbodhi wrote: »

Hi,
Ex wife has died and helping my daughter deal with her affairs, due to the circumstances of the death (sudden and at home alone) an inquest is to be held, an interim Death Certificate is to be issued.


We need to provide a death certificate to the pension company for any potential death in service benefit, assume they will need an "original" not a copy of the certificate, but the coroner only appears to send one.


Can we ask for further copies of this from the Coroner? or do we post the original, wait for it to come back, then send it to the bank to close her account etc?


There are few that will need to see the certificate as my daughter is only next of kin and is not administering the estate as it is insolvent, the advice has been to leave well alone.


Thanks is advance for your help!

If the esate is insolvent you should not do anything as claiming the in service benefit might create difficulties unless it is not payable to the estate. Ask the coroner for extra copies.

Crabapple

The coroner might not issue more, but worth asking. If not, go to a solicitors or bank and ask them to do you some certified copies, it should only cost a few quid.

Milliemogs_2

Ring the Coroner's secretary and ask for more copies. When my father died the secretary automatically sent us four copies which was ample (but said we could have more if needed). Most banks just wanted to see a copy, photocopy it for their records and then gave it straight back. For postal accounts etc we had to send a copy off but again they were sent back pretty swiftly.

g6jns_2

tiggerbodhi wrote: »

Hi,
Ex wife has died and helping my daughter deal with her affairs, due to the circumstances of the death (sudden and at home alone) an inquest is to be held, an interim Death Certificate is to be issued.


We need to provide a death certificate to the pension company for any potential death in service benefit, assume they will need an "original" not a copy of the certificate, but the coroner only appears to send one.


Can we ask for further copies of this from the Coroner? or do we post the original, wait for it to come back, then send it to the bank to close her account etc?


There are few that will need to see the certificate as my daughter is only next of kin and is not administering the estate as it is insolvent, the advice has been to leave well alone.


Thanks is advance for your help!

Do you know how much the estate is insolvent by? Is it possible that the death in service amount might make it solvent? The DIS may not be payable to the estate of course.