---
type: "Public Service Route"
title: "Northern Ireland manual death notification route"
description: "Official Northern Ireland guidance for notifying benefit offices and other public or private bodies separately after a death."
status: "observed"
assertion_status: "official"
service_family: "notify-organisations-after-a-death"
jurisdiction: "northern-ireland"
provider: "northern-ireland-bereavement-service"
observed_at: "2026-08-07"
sources:
  - id: "nidirect-who-to-tell"
    title: "Who to tell about a death"
    resource: "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/who-tell-about-death"
    author: "organisation:northern-ireland-executive"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "nidirect-bereavement-service"
    title: "Bereavement Service - reporting a death"
    resource: "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bereavement-service-reporting-death"
    author: "organisation:department-for-communities-northern-ireland"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
---

# Northern Ireland manual death notification route

Northern Ireland is outside Tell Us Once. The
[Bereavement Service](../organisations/northern-ireland-bereavement-service.md)
can record a death for Department for Communities benefit offices, while
nidirect identifies further bodies that may need individual contact.

This is not a claim that one Northern Ireland call covers every public body.
Banks, insurers, pensions, utilities and other accounts remain separate
[private notifications](../organisations/private-organisation-after-death.md).
