I have moved home – what do I need to update?
10 tasks in suggested order
1. Practical Lili tip: check how to end your tenancy and document the handover
If applicable: If you are leaving rented accommodation.
If you rent, check the notice and handover rules that apply to your tenancy and UK nation. Keep useful handover evidence such as agreed condition records and final meter readings.
Before leaving the rented home, allowing enough time for the notice rules that apply to your tenancy.
Your tenancy agreement, landlord/agent and the official housing guidance for the UK nation where the property is located.
Tenancy agreement, required notice details, inventory/condition records and meter readings where relevant.
This is a practical Lili tip, not one UK-wide statutory notice period. Tenancy rules differ by nation and tenancy type.
Official source: www.gov.uk
2. Practical Lili tip: take final meter readings and move or close household accounts
If applicable: If you have household utility or communications contracts in your name.
For energy, tell the supplier you are moving and keep final meter readings. Also check broadband or other household contracts separately with the provider.
Around the moving date, according to each provider’s process and contract.
Your energy supplier and other household-service providers.
Old and new addresses, moving date, account details and meter readings where relevant.
This is practical contract administration, not one statutory UK moving-house obligation. Broadband and other private contracts follow their own terms.
Official source: www.ofgem.gov.uk
3. Practical Lili tip: consider redirecting post and updating important contacts
If applicable: If you want mail redirected or expect post to continue arriving at the old address.
Royal Mail offers a paid redirection service. Separately update organisations that need your new address rather than relying on redirection alone.
Before or around the move if you want mail redirection.
Royal Mail for redirection; directly with each organisation for the underlying address change.
Old and new addresses and the details required by Royal Mail or the organisation you are updating.
This is a practical Lili tip, not a statutory requirement to buy mail redirection.
Official source: Royal Mail
4. Update the local council services affected by your move
If applicable: If a council-run service or Council Tax/local-rate account is affected by the move.
Use your postcode to identify the responsible council/local authority and update Council Tax or other address-linked local services that apply to you.
Around the move date, following the responsible council’s own reporting timetable.
The local council/local authority responsible for your old/new address, found through the official postcode/local-authority route.
Old and new address, moving date, postcode and any council account/reference details.
Council Tax and local services differ by UK nation and council. Only update services that actually apply to your household.
Official source: GOV.UK
5. Change driving licence address after moving
If applicable: If you hold a Great Britain driving licence; Northern Ireland licence holders must use the Northern Ireland route.
In Great Britain, drivers must update the address on their driving licence when they move; Northern Ireland has a different service.
Update the address when you move. The DVLA change is free in Great Britain.
DVLA online/postal service for Great Britain; Northern Ireland uses a separate DVA service.
Driving licence details and new address; follow the service for any identity information requested.
In Great Britain you can be fined up to £1,000 if you do not tell DVLA about the address change. Update the V5C and vehicle-tax Direct Debit separately where they apply. Northern Ireland uses a different DVA route.
Official source: GOV.UK
6. Report address change for benefits
If applicable: If you receive a benefit for which the move or new address is a reportable change.
People receiving benefits must use the official route to report relevant changes of circumstances; the exact route depends on the benefit.
Report a relevant change promptly; some benefit rules require changes such as moving house to be reported straight away.
The government body responsible for the specific benefit.
Benefit account details and evidence of the change if requested.
The reporting route depends on the benefit. One notification may not update every benefit, and failing to report a relevant change can affect entitlement or create an overpayment.
Official source: GOV.UK
7. Tell HMRC your new address if you claim Child Benefit
If applicable: If you are the Child Benefit claimant and your UK address changes.
A Child Benefit claimant must report a move to another UK address to HMRC so the claim details stay current.
When you move to the new UK address.
HMRC Child Benefit change-reporting service.
Child Benefit claimant details, National Insurance number if requested, old address and new address.
Only the person claiming Child Benefit can report the change. You must still report relevant changes even if Child Benefit payments have stopped because of the Child Benefit tax charge.
Official source: GOV.UK
8. Register again with your new address if you are eligible to vote
If applicable: If you are eligible to register and your address has changed.
The official service is used to join the electoral register and to update your name, address or nationality by registering again.
After changing address if you are eligible and want your electoral-register details updated.
GOV.UK Register to Vote service; your electoral registration office can answer local registration questions.
Current address and personal details; National Insurance number if available.
Eligibility depends on citizenship, age, UK nation and the election or referendum. This step provides the administrative route and does not recommend how or whether to vote.
Official source: GOV.UK
9. Update your address with HMRC where HMRC holds relevant personal records
If applicable: If HMRC holds personal tax, National Insurance, pension or benefit records for you that need the new address.
Use HMRC’s personal-details service to update your address for the HMRC records that apply to you. Business tax records use separate update routes.
After you have actually moved.
HMRC online services or app, using the route for the relevant tax or record.
HMRC sign-in details and your new address; have the information needed for the relevant tax or record.
A personal address change does not automatically update every business-tax record. If you run a business, check the separate business-details route.
Official source: GOV.UK
10. Update the address on your vehicle log book (V5C)
If applicable: Only if you are the registered keeper of a vehicle.
If you are the registered keeper of a vehicle, you must update the address on the V5C log book.
Update the V5C when your address changes.
Online with DVLA or, depending on the case, by post.
Vehicle registration number, V5C reference number and new UK address.
You can be fined up to £1,000 if you do not tell DVLA about the address change. Driving licence, vehicle-tax Direct Debit and personalised-registration details are updated separately where applicable.
Official source: GOV.UK
