Anybody who is a Deputy for a person with dementia will be familiar with the above. It's an annual insurance premium paid on behalf of a dementia patient by the Deputy (from the patient's finances), to cover the event that the Deputy fails to carry out their duties. My invoices would run from August to August. My mum died in November last year. My deputyship role ended on that date. From then on I was dealing with a different sort of admin that arose with my mum's death. I did the 'tell all' government thing at the registary office, which was very useful, and dealt with the organisations that weren't involved in that. To be honest, having the responsibility of deputyship isn't something I'd wish on anybody, but knew I was the one who should do it. Then, when that ended, I had to start dealing with being my mum's executor.
A few months after my mum died I got another invoice from the DBS for £78. That must have been to cover an extra period after the previous August payment. Obviously I'd frozen my mum's accounts, but that wasn't a problem. The bill was paid. Today I checked my emails and saw one from the DBS. They were asking for the annual premium. As I said, I haven't been a Deputy since 2019. There was a line in the email that mentioned, ' Please also note that information provided to the Court or the Office of the Public Guardian may not yet have been passed to us '.
I'm sorry for having a rant, but I was so annoyed that this invoice was sent to me. There's no excuse for it happening. My mum died in November last year; in July of this year they're sending me a new invoice. They sent me a final invoice for an extra £78 in January of this year, so obviously they've had the information passed on that the person under the care of of the Court of Protection has died. This didn't upset me, it just infuriated me, but obviously there will be people this may happen to who will be set back by it.
A few months after my mum died I got another invoice from the DBS for £78. That must have been to cover an extra period after the previous August payment. Obviously I'd frozen my mum's accounts, but that wasn't a problem. The bill was paid. Today I checked my emails and saw one from the DBS. They were asking for the annual premium. As I said, I haven't been a Deputy since 2019. There was a line in the email that mentioned, ' Please also note that information provided to the Court or the Office of the Public Guardian may not yet have been passed to us '.
I'm sorry for having a rant, but I was so annoyed that this invoice was sent to me. There's no excuse for it happening. My mum died in November last year; in July of this year they're sending me a new invoice. They sent me a final invoice for an extra £78 in January of this year, so obviously they've had the information passed on that the person under the care of of the Court of Protection has died. This didn't upset me, it just infuriated me, but obviously there will be people this may happen to who will be set back by it.
