All other online service providers convert your orders to a paper application.
VitalChek is the only authorized vendor who collects orders on our behalf.
Online service providers collect your order and submit it to our office for processing. Please note that the Department of Health processes requests for all orders. Select First Class Mail® or UPS as your shipping option. In addition to the standard death certificate fee of $20, a $10 processing fee also applies. National Center for Health Statistics Opens In A New Window' website for contact information.įor online services: You may order a death certificate online (24 hours/day, 7 days/week) from Pennsylvania's Therefore, please provide as much information as possible to assist us in locating the requested death record.įor death certificates from other states: If you need a certificate for someone that died in another state, see the You will receive a certified " No Record Certification of Death" if you request a certificate and we cannot identify or find a record using the information you provided. Our office only issues death certificates for deaths that occurred in Pennsylvania since 1906. This document is frequently used for closing financial accounts, settling estates, claiming life insurance and pension beneficiary benefits, cancelling accounts or re-establishing the account holder contact with utility companies, and serving as documentation for a widow/widower to remarry. In Pennsylvania, a death certificate is printed on specialized security paper that contains a raised seal. A death certificate is an official legal document that includes information from a person's death record.
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