{"id":7533,"date":"2019-02-14T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/death-certificate-price-to-rise-sharply\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:05:35","slug":"death-certificate-price-to-rise-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/death-certificate-price-to-rise-sharply\/","title":{"rendered":"Death certificate price to rise sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The price of a getting a death certificate will nearly triple from this weekend in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

Families registering a death will be charged \u00a311 from Saturday for each certificate, up from \u00a34.<\/p>\n

Costs for birth and marriage certificates are changing as well, but pricier death certificates will have the most serious impact.<\/p>\n

Relatives sometimes require up to 20 certificates to prove to different authorities their loved one has died.<\/p>\n

Some local authorities have already posted the increases on their websites, including Wigan, Gloucestershire and Kingston.<\/p>\n

Kingston Council in London told BBC News that the increase was set by the General Register Office, which answers to the Home Office.<\/p>\n

“The increase to \u00a311 is mandatory,” said a council spokesperson, “and is effective across England and Wales from 16 February 2019.”<\/p>\n

It means the cost of 10 certificates will rise from \u00a340 to \u00a3110, for bereaved relatives already facing a testing time.<\/p>\n

Certificates might be needed to prove a death to a life assurance company, or send to banks, building societies and investment firms.<\/p>\n

Where shares are held, you can be asked to send in a Certificate of Registration of Death to get ownership transferred.<\/p>\n

Bereaved families may well require five or 10 certificates, even if the deceased person’s affairs are fairly simple.<\/p>\n

While the price of marriage and birth certificates are rising by a similar amount, people seldom need more than one copy. Ordering extra copies retrospectively can also cost more.<\/p>\n

‘Highly inappropriate’<\/h2>\n

More than half a million people die each year in England and Wales, so the price increase is likely to bring in millions of pounds.<\/p>\n

The Home Office said the price rise was the first increase since 2010. <\/p>\n

“The fees are set at cost recovery levels only, and registration officers have power to waive or reduce fees on grounds of compassion or hardship,” a spokesman for the Home Office said.<\/p>\n

Terry Tennens, chief executive of the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors, said the trebling in price of a death certificate was “highly inappropriate” in the current economic climate. <\/p>\n

The price of a death certificate ordered online from the General Register Office will go up from the current rate of \u00a39.25 to the same higher cost of \u00a311.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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