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JumboBeef

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3,772 posts

176 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Hello PH massive,

So, I am separating from my wife. I am looking (in the short term) to move to a rented room/be a lodger.....

What do I do with all the official stuff I have that needs an address? Driving licence, banks, credit cards, car insurance, work etc etc? I don't really want to change everything to a rented room where I might only be for a month or two before moving on....

I had considered using my parents' address, but that is 300 miles away, and as I can claim mileage to/from work from my home address my work might not be impressed wink

What do others do? Random thought: what do people do who live on boats on canals?

Thanks.

Kateg28

1,352 posts

162 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Sorry to hear this. I hope the separation is a relatively pain free experience and we won't hear her descent into The Mental on another thread.

Anyhow, for the postbox, can you not get a PO Box number?

TheAllSeeingPie

865 posts

134 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Temporary redirect in your name? Anything the RM miss your soon to be ex wife can forward on?

Sorry to hear about your situation though frown

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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JumboBeef said:
What do I do with all the official stuff I have that needs an address? Driving licence, banks, credit cards, car insurance, work etc etc? I don't really want to change everything to a rented room where I might only be for a month or two before moving on....

I had considered using my parents' address, but that is 300 miles away
So long as they're happy to keep forwarding stuff on, go with that. Online statements instead of paper for financial stuff helps a lot. Car insurance need to know where the car's really going to be overnight, though.

JumboBeef said:
and as I can claim mileage to/from work from my home address my work might not be impressed wink
I think they might also query whether you were REALLY doing a 600 mile commute every day...

JumboBeef said:
Random thought: what do people do who live on boats on canals?
Friends of ours use his sister's place, a long way from where they may happen to actually be.

red997

1,304 posts

208 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Fried who has a narrow boat does the following;
all hi mail is redirected from his last fixed abode address to a mail handler (independent address)
mail handler opens all post, scans in first page of any doc and emails it to him.
he then decides whether he needs to action anything & can get mail forwarded to a PO box
at least I think thats what he told me !

JumboBeef

Original Poster:

3,772 posts

176 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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Thanks for the replies, and sorry for the slow reply.

What would happen if I officially lived in one place, but spend most my time in another....? Would that "another place" have to declare I am there? They are currently getting single persons council tax because they are there by themselves (no other reduction/benefits are claimed by them).

Al U

2,311 posts

130 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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JumboBeef said:
Thanks for the replies, and sorry for the slow reply.

What would happen if I officially lived in one place, but spend most my time in another....? Would that "another place" have to declare I am there? They are currently getting single persons council tax because they are there by themselves (no other reduction/benefits are claimed by them).
Get them to declare that you are there and pay the difference if you are genuinely living there.