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Change of Address Checklist: Your Comprehensive Guide After Moving

Change of Address Checklist: Your Comprehensive Guide After Moving

Apart from enabling right-to-your-doorstep deliveries, your home or business address fulfills multiple essential functions.  For starters, you receive monthly electric, water, gas, internet, and other utility bills in the mailbox at your residential/commercial address. What’s more, your home/business address facilitates formal correspondence from the IRS, insurers, banks, healthcare providers, suppliers, and other relevant organizations. As such, preparing a change of address checklist after moving is paramount when relocating to a new town, county, or state.  In this article, we show you how to successfully realize and implement a change of address checklist.  Furthermore, reading this guide to completion ensures you learn the potential pitfalls of failing to promptly update your address after a commercial or residential move.  papers on the white table

Who To Tell When Moving To a New Address

The irrefutable importance of your residential/commercial address is why it is vital to prioritize who to tell about your move to a new town, county, or state. Below, we present a list of who to notify of a change in your home or business address based on the potential adverse impact of delaying communication of this vital information.

  • Employer and Educational Institutions

As part of the essential information in your employer's payroll records, your home address facilitates formal correspondence and enables employee payment via post. As such, it is critical that you promptly notify your employer of a change in your home address after moving, especially if you receive your salary via traditional mail. Equally important, you should promptly inform the school, college, or university that you or your children attend of your address change when relocating to a new town, county, or state. This way, education institutions become aware of potential attendance disruption due to the move, ensuring a seamless transition to a new or affiliated school, college, or university.

  • Utility Companies

When paying for electricity, water, gas, cable, internet, or other utilities, providers usually charge you based on how much you consume per hour. As such, informing utility companies of a change in your home or business address ensures they halt service to your account, preventing accrued charges past your set move date. Note that utility providers typically require that you notify them of a change in your home or business address at least two weeks before relocating.

  • Government Agencies

Whether it's the IRS, DMV, USPS, SSA, VA, USCIS, Electoral Service, or other agencies, all governmental entities require that you update your residential/commercial address before or immediately after moving to a new town, county, or state. Timely notification not only ensures you are up-to-date with service delivery updates but also lets you avoid hefty fines for a late change of address notification.

  • Banking, Insurance, and Healthcare Providers

As with utilities and governmental services, you must notify your bank, insurer, and healthcare provider of a change in address after moving. Prompt change-of-address notification ensures you avoid an array of detrimental consequences if your personal data ends up in the wrong hands. We highlight two such adverse outcomes in the next section of this guide.

  • Auxiliary Service Providers

Last but not least on your change of address checklist, you should also inform providers of secondary services of a change in your residential/commercial address when relocating. This category includes your accountant, lawyer, cleaners, gardeners, landscapers, mechanics, and others. In some instances, you can even retain auxiliary services if you relocate to a locale within the provider's area of operation.

Consequences of Failing to Update Your Address After Moving

Not updating your home or business address after relocating leads to outcomes with minor to considerable financial implications. In addition to missing out on important communication from your bank, insurer, health provider, government agencies, and others, two other notable adverse outcomes of not utilizing a change of address checklist are:

  • Identity Theft

Unaware of your change of address, utility companies, insurance providers, government regulatory agencies, health providers, and financial institutions would continue sending correspondence to your old address. In this scenario, malicious parties often seize the opportunity to misappropriate sensitive personal data such as your credit card information, social security number, medical records, and so forth. Armed with your personal data, perpetrators can then make exorbitant purchases in your name, withdraw funds from your account, pose as you when committing a crime, and engage in myriad other fraudulent activities. Ultimately, you end up facing considerable monetary losses, especially when it takes time for you to notice that identity theft has occurred.

  • Theft of Valuable Items

As with correspondence sent to your former residential/commercial premises, online retailers would continue delivering products to your old address when you don’t update them on a change of address after moving. In this scenario, criminals typically see your absence as a chance to steal packages from your doorstep. The outcome is that you lose the hard-earned cash used to buy and ship products to an address you no longer reside at or operate from.

Updating Changes to Your Residential/Commercial Address After Moving

Fortunately, simply informing concerned parties of a change to your commercial/residential address ensures you effectively avoid identity theft, prevent the loss of valuable items, and circumvent hefty mandatory fines. In all instances mentioned above in your change of address checklist, you have two convenient options for communicating this crucial information, namely:

  • Online Portal Change-of-Address

Most banks, healthcare providers, employers, schools, government agencies, and even residential/commercial cleaning companies now allow you to update your address information via a purpose-specific link on their websites. Simply searching 'Change of address' on the native search engine typically lets you quickly navigate to the appropriate webpage.  Once there, you substitute your former address with the current one on an online change-of-address form. Alternatively, you can edit your address details after successfully logging onto your user account on a provider's online platform.

  • Change-of-Address via Phone Call

If you have trouble updating your address on a provider's website, you can also call customer care and have a staff member assist in implementing your address change. Just make sure you have all your account details beforehand, as this information is essential to a successful change-of-address update.

Takeaway on Change of Address Checklist

A change of address checklist is key to averting the various adverse outcomes of failing to update your home or business address after moving to a new town, county, or state. Fortunately, the expert and friendly customer care staff at Evolution Moving Company offers you all the guidance you need to guarantee a seamless transition to a new residential/commercial address. Feel free to reach out to us for professional, proficient and comprehensive relocation services at pocket-friendly rates.
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