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Category: Bereavement
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No will, no executor, no contact: what happens to a public service pension death benefit
A public service pension scheme does not wait for probate. If nobody administering the estate gets in touch, HMRC’s own guidance says the scheme should identify the beneficiary and pay out without further delay. Here…
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Teachers’ Pension death benefits: how to claim now the online route has gone
If a teacher in your family has died, you are not reading this for background. Either a form has arrived and it runs to six pages, or you have been told to send one and…
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Civil Service pension death benefits: how to claim, and why families are still waiting
Capita is waiting on paperwork from 3,099 bereaved families. Which of the two claim forms applies, what documents each one needs, how long a claim should take, and what exists if it stalls.