Two names on every policy, not one • LIC publishes no name change form • The person who finds the problem cannot fix it

Name Change in LIC Policy Records in Jharkhand

Every other record on this website is a database entry. A life policy is a contract, and the name on it is the name of a party to that contract, which is why it is altered by an endorsement on the policy bond and not by a form on a portal. That difference matters less than the second one. On a life policy there are two names that have to be right, yours and your nominee's, and almost nobody checks the second. A wrong name on a life policy is usually discovered by the nominee, after a death, at the moment the money is needed and the one person who could have explained it is gone. That is the whole reason to read this page today rather than keep it for later.

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2Names on the bond that must be right

0LIC forms published for a name change

3750The form number for changing a nominee

1Branch that matters, the servicing branch

Reviewed by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk • Updated 21 September 2026

Quick answer

Take the policy bond out of the almirah and read two names, not one. First, the life assured. Compare it letter by letter against the identity documents you actually hold today, spacing and initials included. Second, the nominee. LIC's own guidance for policyholders says plainly: "Ensure that the nominees name is correctly incorporated in the policy bond." That sentence exists because this goes wrong often, and because the nominee is the person who will have to prove who they are at the worst possible time. Now the two facts that shape everything else. LIC publishes no form for changing or correcting a name. Its own download list carries forms for claims, maturity, alterations, revival, assignments, loans and nomination, and there is no name change form among them, which means a correction is made by a written request to the servicing branch with the bond and your evidence, and endorsed onto the policy. Nomination, by contrast, does have numbered forms, including Form 3264 for a nomination and Form 3750 for a notice of change of nomination. So there is a printed form for changing who receives the money and none for correcting the name of the person who pays for it. Finally, the rule that decides whether this is easy or impossible: do it while the life assured is alive. Afterwards, the only person who could have sworn to the correction is not there to swear to it.

Check both

Two Names on Every LIC Policy, and the One Almost Nobody Checks

Name change in LIC policy records in Jharkhand — The name of the life assured and the name of the nominee. Both have to be right.

People bring us the policy because their own name is spelt wrongly. Nine times out of ten, while we are looking, we find something on the nominee line as well, and that is the one that would have caused the real trouble.

The two names on an LIC policy bond and what can go wrong with each
The name	What goes wrong, and why it matters
The life assured, meaning you	A spelling drift, an initial that was never expanded, a surname taken at marriage that the bond still does not carry. This is the one people notice, usually at maturity or when a bank asks. It is a correction, not a change of name, and nothing is published for it
The nominee	The name nobody re-reads after the day the proposal was filled. LIC's own policyholder guidance says "Ensure that the nominees name is correctly incorporated in the policy bond", which tells you how common this is. A wrong nominee name is discovered by that nominee, at a claim, without you
A wife nominated before marriage records caught up	Very common in this state. She is on the bond in her maiden form while every document she now holds carries her husband surname. Nothing was done wrongly, the papers simply moved on. The position is on our Kumari or Devi to the husband surname page
A child nominee entered with a pet name	Raju on the bond, Rajesh on every certificate he now holds. The same trap as a school admission register, and it sits quietly for twenty years. Our short name and full name page explains why that is not a spelling error
A nominee who has died, or a nomination never updated	Not a name question at all, and a more serious one. LIC publishes a numbered form for it, Form 3750, notice of change of nomination, and it can be done at any time during the policy
The name is right but written in a different order	Same words, different arrangement. Worth raising, but it is a field question rather than a spelling one, and our name order and surname first page sets out how to explain it

The asymmetry worth noticing. LIC publishes a numbered form for changing who receives the money, and no form at all for correcting the name of the person who pays the premiums. That is not an oversight you can appeal against, it is simply how the servicing side is arranged, and it tells you what to expect: the nomination change is a routine counter transaction, and the name correction is a written request that a branch official has to consider on its merits.

Read the bond with your identity documents next to it, not from memory. Put the policy bond, your Aadhaar, your PAN and your bank passbook on the table, and then do the same for whoever is named as nominee. Ten minutes, once, on a policy that may run for thirty years. Families almost never do this, and it is the single most useful thing on this page.

The structural fact

Why There Is No LIC Name Change Form, and What Follows From That

You can check this yourself in about a minute, and it is worth doing before you believe anybody's document list, including ours. Open LIC's own download page and read the forms it publishes.

What LIC publishes as downloadable forms and what it does not
What LIC publishes	What that tells you
Forms for claims, maturity, survival benefits, alterations, revival, assignments, loans and the salary saving scheme	The routine servicing transactions all have printed forms, because they are routine and the branch handles them the same way every time
Numbered nomination forms: 3264 for a nomination, 3265 for a minor nominee, 3237 and 3237(A) for Jeevan Sathi and joint life, 3750 for a notice of change of nomination and 3751 for cancellation, with 3738, 3741 and 3740 for appointing, replacing and revoking an appointee	Who gets the money is treated as a standard, repeatable instruction from the policyholder. Hence the numbers
No form for a name change or a name correction of the policyholder or life assured	A name correction is not a standard transaction. It is a written request to the servicing branch, supported by evidence, considered on its merits, and endorsed onto the policy bond if accepted
LIC's guidance that for "any servicing matter, contact the Servicing Branch of your policy", and that applications for alterations are made in writing	The servicing branch is the only address that matters. Not the nearest branch, not the branch where you once paid a premium, and not a call centre
No published procedure specifically for correcting a policyholder's name	Which is exactly why practice varies between branches, and why any website that gives you a confident, definitive document list is describing one branch's habit as though it were a rule

What we will not print, and why. We are not going to give you a numbered list of documents for an LIC name correction, because LIC does not publish one. What we can tell you honestly is what a written request has to contain to be actionable, and that the branch will tell you what evidence it wants. Anyone who hands you a definitive list has copied it from another website, and the first branch official who asks for something else will cost you a second trip.

What to put in the written request, whoever drafts it. The policy number, the name exactly as the bond carries it, the name exactly as it should read, which of the two names on the bond you are asking about, the reason it differs in one plain sentence, and the documents you are offering as proof. Take the original policy bond with you, because an endorsement is made on the document itself. Keep a copy of the request with the office received stamp, every time.

Why the timing matters

Why an LIC Name Mismatch Surfaces at a Claim, and Who It Hurts

This is the part of the page we would ask you to read even if you skip everything else. A life policy is the one record in your file that is used mainly after you are no longer there to explain it, and every other page on this site assumes you will be present to sort out your own paperwork.

How a name mismatch on an LIC policy behaves at different stages
When it comes up	What happens
While the life assured is alive, at maturity, a loan against the policy, or a routine update	Awkward but entirely fixable. You are there, you hold the identity documents, you can sign, and the branch can endorse the correction on the bond. This is the window, and it is open right now
At a death claim, on the life assured's name	The papers that must agree are the policy bond, the death certificate and the nominee's proof of identity. If the bond carries a form of the name that no other paper carries, the family is left explaining a difference that only the deceased could have explained
At a death claim, on the nominee's name	The nominee must show that the person named on the bond is them. Where the bond says Sunita Kumari and her documents say Sunita Verma, she is proving an identity, not collecting a payment, and she is doing it while grieving
Where the nominee's bank account is in a different form of the name	A separate link in the same chain, and a common one. The money has to reach an account, and the account name is compared too. Our name change in bank records page covers that end of it
Where the nominee has themselves changed name, most often at marriage	Then the chain needs a document connecting the two forms. That is far easier to assemble calmly, years in advance, than at a claim counter

The plain version of this, said once. Every correction on this page is ordinary while you are alive and difficult afterwards, because the only person who could say with authority that both names are the same person is the life assured. A policy is bought to spare a family trouble. A name left wrong on the bond quietly cancels part of that intention, and nobody finds out until the intention is being relied on.

What to do this month, in one sentence. Take out every policy bond the family holds, read the life assured name and the nominee name on each against current documents, and write down anything that does not match, then act on the list before you put the bonds away again. If nothing differs, you have lost half an hour. If something differs, you have found it at the only time it is easy to fix.

Do it in this order

How to Correct a Name in an LIC Policy in Jharkhand, Step by Step

Read both names on the bond

The life assured and the nominee, against the documents each person actually holds today. Do this for every policy in the house, not only the one that prompted the question.

Name the kind of difference

A spelling drift, an unexpanded initial, a surname taken at marriage, or the same words in a different order. Each has different wording and different evidence, and saying which one it is turns a complaint into a request.

Find the servicing branch

LIC is explicit that for any servicing matter you contact the servicing branch of your policy. It is printed on your documents and it is not necessarily the nearest branch to where you now live.

Ask that branch what evidence it wants

In writing, before assembling anything. There is no published document list, so the branch's answer is the list. This one question prevents the second and third trip.

Decide the final form of the name first

Letter by letter, and the same form you are using on Aadhaar, PAN and the bank. Correcting the policy to a form your other records do not carry simply moves the mismatch.

Submit the written request with the original bond

An endorsement is made on the policy document itself, so the bond has to be produced. Carry the request in two copies and keep one with the received stamp.

Deal with the nominee separately and properly

A nominee name correction is part of the same conversation, but changing the nominee is a different transaction with its own numbered form, 3750. Do not let the two be bundled or confused.

Check the endorsement when the bond comes back

Read the endorsed name letter by letter before you file the bond away again, and tell the family where the bond is kept. A correction nobody can find is not much better than no correction.

Step 5 is the one people get backwards. They correct the policy to match an old certificate, then discover the bank and Aadhaar carry a different form, and end up making two corrections instead of one. Settle the final form of your name once, across all your records, and bring the policy to that. Our name spelling correction page explains how to decide which form wins.

The employment records that usually carry the same error are on our EPFO and UAN page, the bank end is on the bank records page, and where a marriage is behind the difference, see name change affidavit after marriage.

The full process

Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and Where It Fits an LIC Policy

Read this before the rest of this section. An LIC policy is corrected by endorsement, not by publication. Nobody gazettes a spelling on a policy bond, and nobody gazettes a nominee name. This process matters to you in one situation only: where you are genuinely changing your name across all your records, and the policy is simply one of the records that has to follow afterwards. It is printed in full so that you can see what a real file involves, and so you recognise at once when a gazette is being quoted to you for a proposal form filled in by an agent twenty years ago.

No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so a genuine file goes from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar or anywhere else in the state to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and the notice publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. As reported in July 2025 the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press with immediate effect, so there is no state alternative to fall back on.

The Eight Steps of a Name File Sent From Jharkhand

Settle the final name first

Letter by letter, with the spacing you want, and then use exactly that everywhere, Aadhaar included. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.

Pick the category, then its proforma

A genuine change of name is change of Name Adult or Major. A wrongly typed spelling is the public notice for a wrongly written name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours.

Type the proforma in duplicate

Two originals with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. A change of name is signed in the old name; a public notice is signed in your own name.

Fill the employment field if it is a change of name

The adult proforma asks for the post of the applicant and the office or company name, a field the public notice form does not have. Salaried applicants leave it blank and the file comes back.

Publish and keep the original paper

One of the daily local leading newspapers, carrying both names in full, the father or husband name and the residential address. The whole original paper goes in the file, not a cutting.

Pay only through BharatKosh

The Non Tax Receipt Portal and nowhere else since October 2018. Select the Department of Publication by name, read the amount the portal shows on the day, pay in your own name and print the e-receipt.

Check every date, then post it yourself

Nothing in the file older than one year. Personally or by post or courier only, never through an agent or advocate. Photocopy everything first, because nothing sent in comes back.

Read the notice, then update the records

Check every word the day it publishes, download the e-Gazette copy of that Part IV issue, and then work through Aadhaar first and the policy bond after it.

The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each

The five papers of a Central Gazette name file from Jharkhand and what the Department checks in each
The paper	What is checked in it, clause by clause
1. The proforma, in duplicate	That it is the right category format; the existing full name exactly as your documents carry it; the new full name exactly as settled; the father or husband name; the full address with pin code; the post and office or company name where it is a change of name; the signature in the right name for the category; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number
2. The affidavit or undertaking	The same names and address as the proforma, word for word, with wording matching the category. On Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default
3. The original newspaper	The original paper, not a cutting; the paper name and date of publication visible; both names carried; the father or husband name and residential address; dated within the last year
4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper	Two self attested passport photographs; self attested identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses proofs; and, in a public notice file, the attested photocopy of the connected document carrying the error
5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt	MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed in place of the signature; the certificate that the hard copy and the soft copy are the same; the forwarding letter to the Controller of Publication with a telephone number and email; the e-receipt

The proforma is where files are lost, and there are twelve to choose from. A wrongly typed spelling filed on the change of name form declares henceforth be known as, claiming a change you never made. The Government charge already paid is not refunded, because BharatKosh payments are non-refundable. You then have six months to make good a shortcoming the Department points out, after which a fresh application with all new documents is required.

What to select on BharatKosh, field by field. Pay to the Department of Publication under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and pick the Ministry, the Pay and Accounts Office and the Drawing and Disbursing Officer by their names in the dropdown, never by a code copied off a website. The codes printed for this office on different websites do not agree with each other, and money paid into the wrong head cannot be traced to your file. Read the amount on the portal on the day you pay, because it is revised each financial year.

How to read the published notice before you rely on it. Open the e-Gazette copy and check five things: that it says Part IV; the date of publication; your old full name exactly as your documents carry it; the new name, letter by letter; and the father or husband name and address. Then note the page number and the issue number, because that is what an office will quote back to you at verification.

The posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the change of name wording on the proforma format page and the public notice wording on the public notice proforma page, the charge by category on the fee and undertaking page, the reasons files come back on the rejection reasons page, and the download on the download page.

Cost and time

What an LIC Name Correction Costs in Jharkhand

Cost and time for correcting a name on an LIC policy in Jharkhand
Item	Cost	Time
The written request to the servicing branch	We do not print an LIC charge for this, because LIC publishes no form and no fee for it. Ask the servicing branch what, if anything, it charges. Anyone quoting you a fixed LIC fee has not read the same page we did	We do not print a timeline we have not verified. The branch handling it is the one to ask
Changing the nominee, which is a different transaction	A standard servicing transaction on its own numbered form, Form 3750. Again we print no charge, because we have not verified one	Set by the branch
Affidavit, where the branch asks for one	Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper and the notary charge. Two originals, because the office keeps one. Do not buy it before somebody asks for it	The same day
Fixing Aadhaar, PAN or the bank first, where those are the records that are wrong	Aadhaar charges a fee per attempt with no refund and limits how often a name may be updated. PAN and the bank have their own small charges	Set by each office
Board or school correction, where a certificate is the evidence and it is itself wrong	The board or institution own charge, plus Rs 10 for an RTI application where a register page has to be obtained that way. We never print the JAC correction fee, because the figures circulating online belong to other boards	Set by the board
Government printing charge, only in a genuine change of name	The guidelines print Rs 1,100 for an adult change of name and Rs 1,400 for a public notice, for FY 2016 to 2017, each with the caveat that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case. What BharatKosh shows on the payment screen the day you pay is the figure that counts	Part IV publishes weekly, so allow several weeks from posting
Our charge	Quoted on your papers before you pay anything, and confirmed in writing. We print no service price on any page of this site

Do not trust a figure printed on any website, including this one, on the day you pay. The Department own guidelines say the printing charge varies each financial year and from case to case, so the figures above are what the published guidelines show for 2016 to 2017 and are given so you know the order of the amount, not the amount. What BharatKosh shows when you reach the payment screen is the one that counts. Read it there and pay that.

The honest summary is that an LIC correction is rarely about money at all. It is about doing it while the life assured is alive, and about producing the original bond to a branch that can endorse it. The expensive version is the one that is never done, and is discovered by a family at a claim. Our name change cost page sets out the line items in full.

Send the policy bond and we will read both names

Photograph the policy bond page carrying the name of the life assured and the name of the nominee, and the page showing the policy number and the servicing branch. Then send the identity documents for both people, yours and the nominee's: Aadhaar, PAN and a bank passbook page. If there is more than one policy in the house, send them all, because the error is rarely on only one. Our first reply tells you which of the two names actually differs, what kind of difference it is, whether it needs a correction on the bond or a change of nomination on Form 3750, and the exact wording to put in the written request to the servicing branch. Details on the contact page.

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Set the record straight

Myths About LIC Policy Name Correction

Common beliefs about LIC name correction and what is actually correct
What people are told	What is actually so
There is an LIC name change form to fill in	There is not. LIC's published download list carries forms for claims, maturity, alterations, revival, assignments, loans and nomination, and no name change form. A correction is a written request to the servicing branch, endorsed on the bond if accepted
Only the policyholder's name matters	There are two names on the bond. LIC's own guidance tells policyholders to "Ensure that the nominees name is correctly incorporated in the policy bond", and the nominee is the person who has to prove their identity at a claim, without you
You can sort it out at any LIC branch	LIC says to contact the servicing branch of your policy for any servicing matter. Not the nearest branch and not a call centre. It is printed on your documents
The family can fix it after the death, with an affidavit	This is the belief that costs the most. The only person who could state with authority that both names are the same person is the life assured. Afterwards the family is proving an identity rather than correcting a record. Do it while the life assured is alive
A gazette notification is needed	No. A policy is corrected by endorsement, not by publication. A gazette matters only where you are genuinely changing your name across all your records, and even then the policy simply follows the change
The document list is standard, so any website's list will do	LIC publishes no procedure for a name correction, so practice varies between branches. A confident list on a website is one branch's habit written up as a rule. Ask your servicing branch in writing and let the answer be the list
Correcting the nominee's name and changing the nominee are the same thing	They are not. Correcting a spelling is one conversation. Changing who the nominee is is a separate transaction with its own numbered form, 3750. Keep them apart so neither is refused for being the other
Correct the policy to match the oldest certificate	Correct it to the form you are settling on everywhere, including Aadhaar, PAN and the bank. Matching an old certificate while the rest of your file says something else just moves the mismatch along

The half hour that is worth more than anything else here. Get every policy bond in the house out together, read the two names on each against current documents, write down what does not match, and act on that list before the bonds go back in the almirah. Most families do this only once, and the ones who do it early never have the difficult version of this conversation.

Plain meanings

Key Terms in an LIC Name Correction

Key terms used when correcting a name on an LIC policy
Term	What it means in practice
Policy bond	The physical policy document. It carries both names, and a correction is endorsed onto it, which is why the original has to be produced
Life assured	The person whose life is covered. Usually, but not always, the same person as the proposer who pays
Nominee	The person named to receive the money. The second name on the bond, and the one almost nobody re-reads
Nomination	The act of naming that person. LIC publishes numbered forms for it, including 3264 to nominate and 3265 where the nominee is a minor
Form 3750	The notice of change of nomination. Changing who the nominee is, as against correcting how their name is spelt
Appointee	The adult appointed to receive on behalf of a minor nominee. Has its own forms, 3738, 3741 and 3740
Endorsement	A change written onto the policy itself. How a name correction is recorded, because a policy is a contract rather than a database row
Alteration	LIC's own word for a change to policy terms, applied for in writing to the servicing branch
Servicing branch	The branch that holds and services your policy, and the only one LIC directs you to for a servicing matter. Not necessarily the nearest one
Death claim	The claim made after the life assured dies, where the bond, the death certificate and the nominee's identity are all compared against each other
Correction	Putting an existing entry right against documents already held. Publishes nothing, and what almost every LIC name case actually is
Received stamp	The branch acknowledgement on your own copy of the request. Without it, a request never happened

Coverage

LIC Policy Name Correction Help Across Jharkhand

Your servicing branch is wherever the policy was taken, which for many families in this state is a town they no longer live in, or a branch an agent chose decades ago. Reading both names on every bond, working out which is a correction and which is a change of nomination, and drafting the written request is done on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district.

RanchiJamshedpurDhanbadBokaroHazaribaghDeogharGiridihDumkaRamgarhMedininagarChaibasaGumlaKhuntiSimdegaGarhwaKoderma

District pages are linked from the services page.

FAQ

LIC Policy Name Correction: Frequently Asked Questions

Which LIC form do I fill in to change my name?+

There is not one. LIC's published download list carries forms for claims, maturity, survival benefits, alterations, revival, assignments, loans and nomination, and no form for a name change or correction. It is done by a written request to the servicing branch, with your evidence and the original policy bond, and endorsed on the bond if accepted.

What documents does LIC need for a name correction?+

We will not print a list, because LIC publishes none, and practice therefore varies between branches. Ask your servicing branch in writing and let the answer be the list. Any website giving you a confident document list is describing one branch's habit as though it were a rule, and the first official who asks for something else costs you a second trip.

Which branch do I go to?+

The servicing branch of your policy. LIC is explicit that for any servicing matter you contact that branch, and it is printed on your documents. It is not necessarily the branch nearest to where you live now, which matters in this state, where policies are often serviced from a town the family has since left.

My nominee's name is spelt wrongly. Does it matter?+

Yes, and it matters more than your own. LIC's own policyholder guidance says "Ensure that the nominees name is correctly incorporated in the policy bond". At a claim the nominee has to show that the person named on the bond is them, and they will be doing it without you there to explain the difference.

My wife is nominated in her maiden name. Should I change it?+

Get it looked at, yes. This is very common here, because many women take a husband surname at marriage while the bond keeps the form used on the proposal years ago. Nothing was done wrongly, the papers simply moved on. The position is on our Kumari or Devi to the husband surname page.

Is correcting the nominee's spelling the same as changing the nominee?+

No, and keeping them apart matters. A spelling correction is one conversation with the branch. Changing who the nominee is is a separate servicing transaction with its own numbered form, Form 3750, notice of change of nomination, and it can be done at any time during the policy.

The policyholder has died and the name on the bond is wrong. What now?+

This is the hard case and we will not pretend otherwise. The family is no longer correcting a record, it is proving an identity, because the one person who could have stated that both names refer to the same individual is not there. Take the bond, the death certificate and every document linking the two forms of the name to the servicing branch and ask what it requires. It is why this page keeps saying to do it while the life assured is alive.

Do I need a gazette notification for an LIC correction?+

No. A policy is corrected by endorsement, not by publication. Nobody gazettes a spelling on a policy bond. A gazette matters only if you are genuinely changing your name across all your records, and even then the policy is simply one of the records that follows the change.

Which form of my name should the policy carry?+

The one you are settling on everywhere, including Aadhaar, PAN and the bank, not whichever old certificate you happen to have in hand. Correcting the policy to a form your other records do not carry simply moves the mismatch along. Our name spelling correction page explains how to decide which form wins.

Do I have to take the original policy bond?+

Yes, expect to. A correction is recorded as an endorsement on the policy document itself, which is the practical difference between a contract and a database entry. If the bond is lost, say so at the outset, because that is a different conversation with the branch and it should not be discovered halfway through.

What should the written request say?+

The policy number, the name exactly as the bond carries it, the name exactly as it should read, which of the two names on the bond you mean, one plain sentence explaining why they differ, and the documents you are offering as proof. Two copies, and keep the one carrying the branch received stamp.

What does an LIC name correction cost?+

We do not print an LIC charge, because LIC publishes no form and no fee for it. Ask the servicing branch. Where the branch asks for an affidavit that is a stamp paper and a notary charge, and where Aadhaar, PAN or a certificate has to be corrected first, those offices have their own charges. We do not print charges or timelines we have not verified, and we never print the JAC correction fee.

Who wrote and checked this page

Written and maintained by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk, led by founder Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, with 5+ years filing with the Department of Publication. The LIC positions on this page are taken from LIC's own website and are checkable in a few minutes. LIC's published list of downloadable forms carries forms for claims, maturity, survival benefits, alterations, revival, assignments, loans and the salary saving scheme, together with numbered nomination forms including 3264 for a nomination, 3265 for a minor nominee, 3237 and 3237(A) for Jeevan Sathi and joint life, 3750 for a notice of change of nomination, 3751 for cancellation and 3738, 3741 and 3740 for appointee matters; and it carries no form for a name change or correction, which is the basis for this page saying a correction is a written request rather than a form. LIC's policyholder guidance states that for "any servicing matter, contact the Servicing Branch of your policy", that applications for alterations are made in writing, and, on nomination, "Ensure that the nominees name is correctly incorporated in the policy bond", which is why this page treats the nominee name as the one to check first. LIC's guidance does not set out a procedure for correcting a policyholder's name, so we deliberately print no document list and no LIC fee or timeline, and the page repeatedly tells the reader to ask the servicing branch in writing and let that answer be the list. That the nominee is the person who discovers the problem, and the advice to correct the bond while the life assured is alive, are our own working practice from handling these files and not a published rule. The gazette category positions and the printing charges shown are from the Department of Publication's own published guidelines for FY 2016 to 2017, with the guidelines' own caveat that they vary each financial year and from case to case. We do not print the JAC correction fee, Aadhaar, PAN, bank or notary charges we have not verified, or any LIC branch address. We are a documentation consultancy and not advocates, and nothing here is advice about insurance. Who we are is on the about page.

Last reviewed 21 September 2026 • 9540005002 • info@jharkhandnamechange.com • Jharkhandnamechange.com is a private documentation consultancy and is not the Department of Publication, the Controller of Publication, the Life Insurance Corporation of India, a court, a law firm or any Government office. This page is general information, not legal or insurance advice.

Verify it yourself

Official Sources on LIC Policy Servicing

LIC downloadable formsThe published form list. Read it yourself and see that the nomination forms are numbered and that there is no name change form among them.
LIC policy guidelines for policyholdersWhere LIC says to contact the servicing branch for any servicing matter, that alterations are applied for in writing, and to ensure the nominee name is correctly incorporated in the policy bond.
Life Insurance Corporation of IndiaThe corporation itself, for the current position on servicing, nomination and claims.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of IndiaThe regulator, for policyholder protection and grievance escalation beyond the insurer.
Unique Identification Authority of IndiaFor the Aadhaar name update route and the limits on how often a name may be updated, where Aadhaar is the record to settle first.
Department of PublicationFor the twelve gazette categories and their proformas, in the separate case where a name is genuinely being changed.
The Gazette of IndiaWhere a published notice appears, in Part IV, where one is genuinely required.
BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only route for the Government printing charge since October 2018, and the only place the amount of the day can be read.

Quick Summary

An LIC Name Correction in Eight Lines

The short version

A policy carries two names, the life assured and the nominee.
LIC itself tells you to check the nominee name on the bond.
LIC publishes no name change form, so it is a written request.
Nomination does have numbered forms, including 3750 to change a nominee.
Everything goes to the servicing branch, not the nearest branch.
There is no published document list, so ask the branch in writing.
A correction is endorsed on the original bond, so carry it.
Do it while the life assured is alive, because afterwards nobody can swear to it.

Send the policy bond and we will read both names against your documents.

Yours and the nominee's. Bring out every policy in the house, because the error is rarely on only one, and this is the only time in a policy's life when fixing it is simple.

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