Never too late to write a will<\/a><\/p>\nThe family\u2019s only major asset under his name was their home in Jasin, which was jointly named with their eldest son.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that time, it never occurred to us to do anything about it,\u201d said Yen, 77.<\/p>\n
The family first rented out the house before deciding to sell it in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, as managing tenants turned tedious for her two children working in Singapore and Selangor.<\/p>\n
It was then that her daughter began the process of selling the house.<\/p>\n
Yen said the family consulted a lawyer, who advised them to manage the process themselves on the grounds that the legal fees might not be worthwhile given the property\u2019s value.<\/p>\n
Her daughter first had to settle the outstanding quit rent, assessment taxes and utility bills before filing an application at the Jasin district and land office for the next of kin to claim their share of the deceased\u2019s property.<\/p>\n
After submission of the documents, the family received a summons to attend a hearing at the land office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere, all three of us had to say what should happen to our share of the house, with an official recording our decision,\u201d Yen said.<\/p>\n
Another round of waiting followed before the family obtained the necessary order and a new title from the land office, allowing the property to be finally sold.<\/p>\n
Yen said the process took longer as it happened during the pandemic period, when various safety and health restrictions were in place.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter had to take leave to visit and deal with various government departments,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Looking back, she believes the process would have been simpler and less time-consuming had a will been prepared earlier.<\/p>\n
Engineer Matthew Lye, 56, from Ipoh, discovered more than RM1,000 in unclaimed money under his late father\u2019s name when he checked the government\u2019s eGUMIS portal recently.<\/p>\n
\u201cI often read news reports about the government announcing huge amounts of unclaimed money, so I usually check mine.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo months ago, I decided to check under my father\u2019s name. He died more than five years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised to find utility deposits and dormant savings accounts that we were not aware of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
However, Lye said the process of preparing the necessary documents to claim the money was cumbersome.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at the kind of documents I needed to claim the money, I might just let it be,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Malaysians can check on unclaimed money through the government\u2019s eGUMIS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELAKA: When her husband died in 2013 after a long battle with cancer, housewife Aunty Yen (as she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[79,217864,18,3260,196133,67005,19,17,217861,234,235,217862,217863,217839,217860],"class_list":["post-501231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-egumis-portal","tag-eire","tag-estate-planning","tag-family-home","tag-government-departments","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-land-office-hearings","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-property-sale","tag-quit-rent","tag-unclaimed-money","tag-will-preparation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116633009543119975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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