Legal requirement for Insurance address to match address on my drivers license?

InsideInsurance

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

How would that work if you used a Post Office Box or some other sort of mail retention service as your correspondence address, perhaps because you don't have a fixed "home" address?

I said I dont even know the law thus cannot really propose how it will work.

The .gov.uk website simply says if you change address you must inform the DVLA, it doesnt caveat it with any comments that you dont need to do it if you will still have access to correspondence sent there.

There have of course been the recent press stories of people claiming that they are having to live in their car/ vans having lost their homes in the recession. Interesting to see how thats dealt with for all correspondence and not just insurance/ DVLA

Rover_Driver

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

How would that work if you used a Post Office Box or some other sort of mail retention service as your correspondence address, perhaps because you don't have a fixed "home" address?

From the DVLA's leaflet Inf1D, 'How to fill in your application for a driving licence:

'The address on the licence must be a GB home address at which you can be contacted. We do not accept PO Box addresses.' (Their bold)

GabbaGabbaHey

Rover_Driver wrote: »

From the DVLA's leaflet Inf1D, 'How to fill in your application for a driving licence:

'The address on the licence must be a GB home address at which you can be contacted. We do not accept PO Box addresses.' (Their bold)

Thanks - that's interesting. So the implication is that if you don't have a fixed GB address for correspondence, you cannot apply for a driving licence.

Surely this is nonsense - I can imagine all sorts of people who would be disadvantaged.

Rambosmum

You can have insurance at one address and your licence at another - for example people who live Monday to Thursday in once city, then go home for the weekends or people where their correspondence address is different to where they live.

The concern to me would be that if the person you have spoken with thinks it will invalidate a claim you need to check you insurance t&cs don't state that they expect your insurance address to be the address on your licence as that would invalidate your insurance.