Tell Us Once, notification services and a digital inheritance vault
Notification services help your family tell firms. A vault tells your family which firms there are.
What these services do
Tell Us Once is a free government service that tells many government departments at once after someone passes away. It is not available in Northern Ireland. There are also free services that tell banks, utilities and other firms for the family.
What they need from your family
All of them need your family to know which organisations to tell. If nobody knows about an old pension or a savings account, no service can tell them.
Where a digital inheritance vault fits
You set the vault up while you are alive, so the list already exists. After you pass away your executor uses it with Tell Us Once, a notification service, or our free bereavement contacts directory. Nothing gets missed because nobody knew about it.
What is a digital inheritance vault?
A digital inheritance vault is a private, encrypted record of what you own, where it is, and who to contact, kept for the people who will sort things out after you pass away. It holds the map, not the money and not your passwords. More about digital inheritance vaults.
Questions
Do I still need Tell Us Once if I have a digital inheritance vault?
Yes. Tell Us Once is how your family tells government departments. The vault tells them everything else that exists, so they know who else to contact.
Is Inherit Vault a notification service?
No. It is set up in advance by you. We also run a free list of UK bereavement contacts that anyone can use: inheritvault.com/bereavement.
Leave your family a map, not a mystery.
Write down what you have and where it is, in an evening. Locked so only you can read it. Passed to your executor only after a verified death.