Probate delays reduce but 'action still needed'
There has been a decline in probate delays with applications taking on average 9.3 weeks to process in July 2024, compared to 14 weeks in the same month last year.
Whilst this shows promising momentum, more needs to be done as Private Wealth & Tax partner Jo Summers explained, when she spoke to FT Adviser on behalf of STEP – the professional body for inheritance advisers.
She said: “There is still a significant backlog of open cases that needs to be sorted. There is also a large discrepancy between the service for ‘standard’ online probate applications and more complex applications that have to be done on paper.”
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