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27. In Florida you have to provide a birth certificate which costs $15

In order to get a state photo ID which costs $25 or a driver's license which costs more. You also have to show a proof of residence and a Social Security card. If you have changed your name - such as most women do when married - you have to show proof of your name change. Women have to provide a copy of a wedding certificate, another cost to obtain. If they've been married more than once they have to provide divorce papers or death certificate for each husband along with the additional wedding certificate.

OP - the state ID is only good for so many years then it's another $25 to renew it. Fortunately once they have been provided with the other forms of ID they keep scanned copies so those don't have to be provided every time.

The last time I renewed my driver's license and had to provide all the proofs the idiot clerk did not believe that my Social Security card was real. It's the original one that my parents obtained for me when I was a kid and the dipstick clerk was so young she'd never seen one like it. At least I was smart enough that I never changed my name when I married so that kept the number of certificates I had to provide to a minimum!