Changing addresses is a PITA!

[csziggy]

23. I am so glad I didn't change my name when I married, but it was still a PITA in 1977

First off, the accountant we used the first year took exception to me putting myself as head of household (I had the main income) so he switched our names - but didn't switch our social security numbers. Apparently on the form that he sent in to correct this, he put our names down as Husbandfirst Husbandlast, csziggyFirst csziggyLast HusbandLast.

That got the Social Security guys involved and they wrote wanting to know why I had not informed them of my name change. That took a year to resolve.

The IRS must hold grudges because they then audited us for four years, even though none of the audits showed any appreciable changes in our tax amount. In fact once or twice it turned out that we'd paid more than we owed!

That mess left such a bad taste that even now, over forty years later, I give anyone who assumes that I am Mrs. HusbandLast a really, really hard time.

Of course now for the Real ID stuff not changing my name made things so much easier. I don't have to take in a marriage license since my name never changed. Now, I just wish I could get people to spell my name correctly. It's only four letters long, it's not that fricking hard!