Macclesfield District General Hospital

People to inform ‘Tell Us Once’ When someone dies, informing the official organisations such as local government agencies and departments can be a repetitive and difficult process. ‘Tell Us Once’ is an innovative cross government service that enables people to report changes in their circumstances to government just once. This service will be offered routinely to people registering a death by the Register Office, or speak to the registrar at your appointment who may be able to advise and support you with this.

Following registration the registrar will provide you with details of this service which you can then contact online or by telephone. Please ask the Register Office for details.

Tell Us Once will notify:• HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) – To deal with personal tax (you need to contact HMRC separately for business taxes e.g. VAT).

• Department for Work and Pensions – To cancel benefits e.g. income support.

• Passport Office – To cancel a British Passport.

• Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency – To cancel a licence and remove the person as the keeper of up to five vehicles.

• The local council – To cancel housing benefit, council tax reduction, a blue badge, inform council housing services and remove the person from the electoral register.

• Veterans UK – To cancel armed forces compensation scheme payments.

21