Cheaper Forms of ID?

GoldFool

Hi there,

At present, both my husband and I are without valid forms of ID. My driving licence has the wrong address on it (and I've lost the paper part), he doesn't even have a driving licence and both of our passports have expired. We got really behind when I was very ill and now everything is out of kilter.

To fix this all up, it's something like £250. We're usually okay for money but we've also needed to make a lot of renovations to our home, and at the moment we can't spend that amount in one go. Just for the driving licences, the cheaper options, it'd be £100.

Is there any kind of pay weekly/monthly scheme that gets you ID? We're finding life quite difficult without them as even the most banal things seem to require ID!

Any help muchly appreciated!

dacouch

I think changing your address on your driving licence is free, so why not justt do that?

novagirl

Changing the address is free for a driver's licence but as they have lost the paper part they will have to pay for that. (£7.50 IIRC)

GoldFool

dacouch wrote: »

I think changing your address on your driving licence is free, so why not justt do that?

It isn't, as I've not got the paper part and therefore need to be issued for a brand new licence - full cost - if I want to change address. Not entirely sure why that's relevant, considering they'd need to be issuing a new paper part anyway, but thems the rules!

looby75

GoldFool wrote: »

It isn't, as I've not got the paper part and therefore need to be issued for a brand new licence - full cost - if I want to change address. Not entirely sure why that's relevant, considering they'd need to be issuing a new paper part anyway, but thems the rules!

it's only £17.50 to get a new driving licence, I upgraded from a paper on recently and it only cost £17.50 so it won't cost anywhere near £100 to get yours and your dh's replaced