# Northern Ireland manual death notification route

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    ---
    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).