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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
This is going to be scary for those of us who were born with one last name, eventually got married and took our spouse's last name. The new laws require more forms of ID now than just a REAL ID, if you change banks for your monthly social security deposit.
But what if the bank changes itself? Will we have the same account and routing number? If not, this could get messy. I know my birth certificate has my first, middle, and last name at birth. My REAL ID Drivers License has only my first and last name at marriage, and so does my social security card. I'm not sure where my marriage certificate is, but if I need a new copy it involves more paperwork and fees, plus Connecticut requires a postal money order only and not a personal check, and they don't take credit cards for payment. So that means more fees.
All this to prove that I am the person I was when I first filled out my Social Security deposit information, and all because I'm a married woman who took my husband's name when I got married, and that last name doesn't match the last name on my birth certificate. Which - they knew, because they gave me that Real ID, which required all that information back when I still lived in Connecticut.
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I can't speak to this bank, but 50+ years ago I opened my 1st bank account at Rochester Savings Bank in Rochester, NY. A couple of years later, I needed to order checks and took advantage of some advertisement for cheap checks, and sent away for 500 checks. They ended up sending me 5000 checks by accident. The bank has since been bought out and merged a number of times since and is now called Citizens Bank.
I still have 100 or so of those checks, which clearly say Rochester Savings Bank on them, and despite all of the changes in the actual bank's ownership and name, the routing and account numbers have not changed for that account, and I still use what's left of the checks to this day without issue.