Certificate of life

Certificate of life
A 1939 Certificate of Life from the British Embassy in Paris. The fee has been paid through the application of revenue stamps.

A Certificate of Life (also called a Proof of Life, Certificate of Existence or Letter of Existence) is a certificate produced by an embassy or other government body to confirm that an individual is still alive.[1]

Governments, pension and insurance companies and other bodies may need to check periodically that the people they are paying have not died in order that they do not overpay annuities and pensions.

Where individuals are resident outside their country of origin, a Certificate of Life may be obtained from the person's embassy in their country of residence by producing proof of identity such as a passport.

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  1. ^ http://lexicon.ft.com/term.asp?t=certificate-of-existence Retrieved 24 February 2010.

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