The Name Change Game: Part 3

I'm officially another step closer to completely changing my last name. I have been trying to make sure I got to the important things done while I'm still on vacation- so I made sure I focused on changing all the plastic in my wallet. This included both my bank and credit cards.

 

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First I started by visiting my local bank branches. When I arrived all they really seemed to need is my old ATM card and my new drivers license. However, one bank did want to see my new SS card to confirm the change and another bank where I have a joint account with the husband needed his signature to confirm the name change. Even though each bank did things differently, all of them made it pretty easy to change my name on my accounts.

Changing your bank information is important, but considering how often I use my credit cards I wanted to make sure my name got changed on those asap. For one of my credit cards, it was issued by one of my banks so the banker at the branch was happy to call in the name change to my credit card for me- that was nice. As for my other credit card, all I had to do was call the customer service number on the back of the card, answer some security questions, and they made the change to the account. Now it's just a waiting game for all the new cards to come in.