Three in five people have never updated their will, according to research conducted by Cancer Resear...
Three in five people have never updated their will, according to research conducted by Cancer Research UK.
This is despite almost two-thirds having a will more than five years old and a third over 10 years old.
After having carried out the research, which polled 1,000 people in the UK, the charity is trying to encourage people to make sure their wills are up to date and when doing so to consider leaving a gift to charity.
Only one fifth of those questioned had left a gift to a charity in their will.
The survey found many people did not update their will even with a significant change in their personal lives. A change in family circumstances was the most common reason for a will to be out of date.
Of those with children whose wills were out of date, over two-fifths said this was because people they now plan to leave to are not included in their will, which suggested their will had not been updated since their children were born.
The research surveyed a random selection of people in the country between the ages of 16 up to people in their 80s.
Of those with a will, the findings found that 16% said it was out of date as it did not include a gift to charity that they now intend to make.
