Can anyone put me on the right track.

DXP55

DXP55

DXP55

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After the trip to see a solicitor yesterday I have realised that we do not have any ID with address. ie- council tax -water bill -electric. This appears to be because I have not had any letters or bills on paper.
All our bills are DD with online email which you can not print as they wan't the original.
Today I decided to sign in to Shropshire council and Severn trent water. Both of these fell over at the surname.
Both asked for the surname so put in Smith -wrong -It must be what is on the address line -It is Smith - wrong again - so John Smith & Sally Smith -wrong - Mr John Smith & Mrs Sally Smith - wrong and kicked me out.
Does anyone know what they mean by Surname.
Are they telling me both used the same stupid idiot just out of collage that paid his way through collage with backhanders.
Shropshire council is AI - when you get to what you want speak and say Council Tax -by time they got to end of list I had forgot what I wanted.
I thought (stupid me) that going digital was the bee all and do all of technolagy. It would be a good idea if we all had to go to somewhere and give a voice sample and these places could recognise us immediately.
Does anyone else sit there cussin and swearing at the PC for half an hour to some robot only to find someone had answered 15 seconds ago.
All I want is to open a basic savings account with MY bank -I have been with them when it was Midland Bank in 70's.
Amazing how much better you feel talking about it -my heart beat is now down to 106 :)
 
DXP55 said:
After the trip to see a solicitor yesterday I have realised that we do not have any ID with address. ie- council tax -water bill -electric. This appears to be because I have not had any letters or bills on paper.
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If you've got online access to water bill and electricity bill, you can usually log in and then download a pdf, which you can then print out. This has been sufficient in my experience. The solicitor should really be prepared to take a digital .pdf, as they could always phone the utility customer service with the ac no to check the address is correct, i.e. it's easy to prove it's not fake.
 
If you don’t have any photo ID, then you won’t be able to vote in person in the next elections.

I purposely got a citizenship id card as I didn’t want to go digging for my passport.

You can go to the bank and get them to print off statements.. but tbh, I just emailed my pdf versions of my statements and bills to my solicitor when I was sorting out the paper work for the house, the other party complained as they wanted a paper version, and she (my solicitor) was like WTF?! Do you really expect me to print it out and send it to you in the post!? And eventually they expected it.
 
In Sweden you can order a document from the tax office called proof of person. "personbevis"
Gives full name and where you are living/registered to vote pay council tax.

Why there's still nothing like this in UK is so dumb.
Here's my water bill for march guv it's me innit.
 
slinxy said:
I purposely got a citizenship id card as I didn’t want to go digging for my passport.
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Yep, you can usually use a driving licence or ID card as proof of address and passport as proof of identity.

What will the solicitors do when driving licences go digital? Say that isn’t real either?
 
We do tend to deselect tick boxes saying 'digital documents only'. Just yesterday we insured our car with a new company after the previous one decided arbritarljy to up the premium by 50%. We expect an envelope to arrive stuffed with documents for us to file in the correct house folder.
So keep an eye out for that one. Does your solicitor accept HMRC as even we pensioners seem bombarded with bumf from that source, or DWP as well.
 
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Efour said:
In Sweden you can order a document from the tax office called proof of person. "personbevis"
Gives full name and where you are living/registered to vote pay council tax.

Why there's still nothing like this in UK is so dumb.
Here's my water bill for march guv it's me innit.
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Mayors can do the same here, although everyone having state issued ID cards means they don’t have to very often.
 
Efour said:
... person. "personbevis" ...
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Heh hmmhh heh
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Stu999 said:
Yep, you can usually use a driving licence or ID card as proof of address and passport as proof of identity.

What will the solicitors do when driving licences go digital? Say that isn’t real either?
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Driving licence or passport is the usual one, wonder what people do if they havn't passed their test or their passport has expired
 
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