What a pain...
Smitty500mag
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Any of you all ever have trouble getting an account switched over into your name that was in your wife's name or someone else's. It can get aggravating to say the least.
When we moved in to this house here in Georgia back about 9 years ago as usual June took care of all the details getting hooked up to utilities and telephones and all the miscellaneous stuff like garbage pickup. She was listed as the owner on these accounts which I had no problem with because that's the way we've always done it and besides I always figured she would live longer than me so none of that would be a problem anyway. Boy was I wrong!
Some things she kept a record of with passwords and pin numbers and some she didn't. But even the ones that I did have the passwords and pin numbers too it's still a pain in the rear to transfer the account over into my name without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
So far Verizon was the toughest one. I like Verizon and never had any problems with them but I spent about two and a half hours online with Verizon last night trying to get June's phone disconnected and the account put in my name. This morning I started at about 11:00 continuing to do the same thing online with Verizon. Finally the person in the help center gave me a number to a real person. I didn't know real people existed in these companies. But even then it still took over an hour to get everything set up including auto pay. He was having the same problems getting the system to work like the person that was trying to help me online.The best part about it was the guy I was talking to actually spoke English and was in Atlanta instead of India. I couldn't believe it, someone I could actually understand on the telephone.
I didn't realize I had been with Verizon for over 18 years. This is the first time I've ever had any kind of problem with them which actually was a computer problem and of course June always took care of that kind of stuff so I wouldn't have known about it anyway.
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My wife also takes care of all that stuff. She keeps a book with all the accounts information. She has been on the phone most of today with the phone company, the insurance company, and another entity.
If something happens to her, I'm screwed.
Greg, geez I haven't even thought of that. Good luck with the rest of them.
jimdeere, yep same here.
I can't even find anything in the refrigerator without my wife's help.
What happens if you just stop paying the bill?
I once read that "There are two kinds of web sites......those that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked".
A couple of years ago I also read that over 90% of Wall Street brokers still pay their bills by snail-mail.
On the other hand.....my BIL lives his entire "financial life" online. In the last 5 years, two of his "account" sources have been hacked.
Soooooo........with the exception of Soc. Sec. and my YMCA gym membership.......I think I'll continue with the ol' check/envelope and Forever stamp.
Good luck to all us old geezers!!
None of my accounts have ever been hacked. June, my wife, she had a credit card that was hijacked a couple of times but she didn't lose any money because the bank covered it.
It's too handy for me to fool with messing with the snail mail. I've got all my bills on auto pay. That way I don't even have to try to remember them.
I got rid of one of my bills today. I canceled the Sirius radio for my car. I don't need it anymore since June died. We used to listen to it a lot when we were out cruising around but those days are over.
At home Sirius radio is included with my TV subscription with Dish.
Some good information here. I keep an encrypted file on the computer with ALL the financial details in it, names of brokers, phone numbers, account numbers, everything. I've shown my daughter and she's the computer gearhead in the family. If something happens to me, she'll make it all work for my favorite wife.
I've also started using a program I've trained to store and remember all my account logins, numbers and passwords. My daughter knows about that too, so all she needs is the master password to decrypt it, and she can get into anything.
Some guys I know laugh and say they have a trusted friend who's tasked upon their death, with clearing their browser history. 😂 I'm proud to say I have no need for that. Thank the Lord.
Listen closely, because our menu has changed ! 😆😝
Will you guys explain how this "Wife pays the bills" works? I've been married since 1969 I think. All I remember is that it was a dark and stormy day.
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don't know why you had to change them, unless you needed the password, my dad died in 1980, at that time the power company wanted $25 dollars to swith it over to my moms name, she never did, and we got the house in 2006, bill still comes in my dads name, though they did change it just a year or two back to, the estate of ____