Change car insurance details becuase Ive moved address

dllive

Hi
Ive moved house and need to update my address details on my policy.
My question is: Do I tell the DVLA first or my insurance company first?
Thanks

Aretnap

Tell both as soon as possible. No need to wait until you've told one before you tell the other.

DCFC79

They both need to know so tell 1 then contact the other. Write DVLA and insurer on a piece of paper, fold them up, mix them up so no idea which is which and then pick 1.

anniecave

I would do the insurance first, as your insurance company is actually concerned where your vehicle is normally based. They would expect you to do it on the day you move, or as soon as practical thereafter.


DVLA would also on my list, along with everything house move related, but a lower order of priority. Remember both your driving licence and the address on your vehicle registration, you will need to do both separately.

dllive

Thanks guys.
What are the other usual organisattions you need to notify when changing address? (passport, banks, etc...?)

System

dllive wrote: »

Thanks guys.
What are the other usual organisattions you need to notify when changing address? (passport, banks, etc...?)

Employer, friends, people you want or need to keep in touch with.



Obviously not mother-in-law, creditors, etc.
Probably best to tell the tax man.

anniecave

Think through anyone you have a financial relationship with (banks, credit cards, mobile phones, loyalty cards etc)
Then anything physically related to the address (utilities, insurances)
Then anyone else (including doctor, dentist, leisure centre, employer family, friends, any one who writes to you via post that you actually care about). I would get a mail redirection in addition to trying to notify everyone as quickly as possible.


I genuinely have no idea how the tax office or HMRC finds out changes of address for individuals, but I know that I have never notified them directly as a normal basic rate tax payer. I assume they receive some information via employers.

sheramber

anniecave wrote: »

Think through anyone you have a financial relationship with (banks, credit cards, mobile phones, loyalty cards etc)
Then anything physically related to the address (utilities, insurances)
Then anyone else (including doctor, dentist, leisure centre, employer family, friends, any one who writes to you via post that you actually care about). I would get a mail redirection in addition to trying to notify everyone as quickly as possible.


I genuinely have no idea how the tax office or HMRC finds out changes of address for individuals, but I know that I have never notified them directly as a normal basic rate tax payer. I assume they receive some information via employers.

No, you need to advise them.

When I worked there I once had a query from someone whose address was years out of date and five addresses out of date.

trailingspouse

Tell everyone who you can think of, but also arrange for redirection. Then, when you receive an item of redirected mail from an organisation you didn't think to tell, let the organisation know.

Aretnap

anniecave wrote: »

I genuinely have no idea how the tax office or HMRC finds out changes of address for individuals, but I know that I have never notified them directly as a normal basic rate tax payer. I assume they receive some information via employers.

I assumed that as well. Then, years after I moved I had to contact them about an unrelated matter and incidentally told them my new address. A few weeks later half a dozen end of year tax statements dropped through my letterbox (up to that point I had no idea that they were even a thing), the last of which contained a cheque for about five hundred pounds of tax that I'd overpaid over the years (basic rate PAYE). So it's just as well I finally told them...

agrinnall

https://www.gov.uk/tell-hmrc-change-address