Who will you pay the lump sum death grant to?

We decide who to pay once we know that a death grant is due. The death grant doesn’t usually form part of your estate and can be split between more than one person.

To help us to decide, you can tell us who you’d like us to pay. You can create or change your expression of wish by logging into your online pension account. Or you can fill out our expression of wish form.

It’s important to complete an expression of wish so we can look to pay the death grant in line with your wishes.

Keep us up to date

Even though we make the final decision about who’ll get some or the whole death grant, we encourage you to keep us up to date with who you’d like to get the payment.

The death grant can be paid to someone other than a spouse or child. This could be the personal representative dealing with your estate, or any person who appears to have been your relative or dependant. If the person or people you nominate are not your closest family, then please consider telling us why. This information might help us when making a decision.