Getting ready to move? You will want to make sure you are notifying everyone that your address is changing. Don't forget to
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Essentials
TIP: It will cost you $1 for the USPS to verify your identity when requesting a change of address. Be sure to have a debit or credit card ready.
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Employer: It is best to notify your employer that your address is changing two weeks before your move. This should give your employer amble time to change your address in their records. Notifying your employer of your move is very important, because a failure to do so might result in a delayed paycheck or tax trouble.
Finances
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Bank: Notifying your bank of your move is very important, because they will need to verify your new billing address. Notify your bank a week in advance, so that your billing address will be verified within your first week of moving in. You can either visit the bank in person, call their customer service or use your bank’s online features.
TIP: Have you old billing statements ready because you bank will require them to change your billing address.
- Student loans: If you have student loans, be sure to let whomever you took the loan from know that your address is changing. This should also be done one week in advance.
- Tax agencies: You should let both the federal tax agency and your state's tax agency that your address is changing two weeks before your move. For the federal tax agency, fill out 8822 form for IRS notification. You should go to your state's government website to notify them of the change.
Utilities
TIP: You should schedule your utilities to be shut off at the end of the day at your current residence and activated the morning of the move in day at your new place. This overlap will ensure that you are not moving in the dark.
- Gas: Be sure to let your gas company know that you are moving, so that you are not paying for the new owners of your old place. You should let your gas company know that your address is changing a week before you make your move.
- Water: The water company should be notified a week before you make your move. Again, you don't want to be paying for water at your old place after you moved out.
- Phone: You should let your landline company know that you are moving a week before your move. You should also contact your cell phone provider -- either online or by phone.
People
- Friends: Your friends should also be notified of your move. You should let your friends know about you move at the latest two weeks before your move.
- Neighbors: You want to notify to your neighbors about 2 weeks before your move. You do not want you neighbors to find out your moving by them watching you pack boxes in a moving truck.
- Medical services: It is important to let your doctor, dentist and veterinarian (if applicable) know that you are moving. This can be done a week before your move.
Insurance provider
- Dental: Your dental insurance provider should be notified of your move 2 weeks before it happens.
- Life: You should notify your life insurance provider that you are moving 2 weeks before you move.
- Car: Your car insurance provider should be notified of your move 2 weeks before it happens.
Government
- Voting registration: While at the DMV, you should change the address associated with your voting registration. This needs to be done 25 days before an election in order to vote.