About Help After Loss

Every year in the UK, hundreds of thousands of families are left to work through the paperwork that follows a death. The Office for National Statistics recorded 568,613 deaths registered in England and Wales in 2024 alone, and behind each one is someone facing a long list of banks, insurers, pension providers, utilities and government departments to contact.

The information is out there, but it is scattered across dozens of government websites, charity pages, and forums, and none of it speaks to your situation. Someone in their twenties who has lost a parent suddenly needs very different guidance from someone in their seventies whose husband or wife has passed away after a long illness.

That is why we built Help After Loss. Answer a few questions and you get a checklist made for you, with the dates that matter, honest costs, and links straight to the right places. Free, and always will be.

Our tool asks a few gentle questions about your situation: who has passed away, how you were related to them, whether there is a will, whether there is property, and so on. From your answers we put together a checklist of what needs doing, in a sensible order, with the deadlines worked out from the date of death.

The questions adapt as you go, so you are never asked anything that does not apply. If your loved one was under 18, we leave out the pension and probate questions and include the Children's Funeral Fund. If you are in Scotland, we show Confirmation rather than Probate and extend the registration deadline to 8 days. If your family is Muslim or Jewish, we put the funeral arrangements first, for burial within 24 to 48 hours.

We do not collect, store, or share any of your personal information. Your answers and your progress stay on your own device, in your browser. There is no database, no account to create, and no way for us to see anything you type. What you write here is yours alone.

We do not use advertising trackers, sell data, or share information with third parties.