Imagine that your house burns down or gets completely destroyed by fire, flood or other disaster. Would you know how to go about replacing your essential paperwork? Here's a helpful list of links that can help you replace your essential personal paperwork as well as change your address. Print several copies of this and put a copy at work and with a friend. Make copies of your official and important documents and store also at separate locations:
* Passport: For information on replacing a lost or stolen passport, visit the State Department website at http://travel.state.gov/passport/lost/lost_848.html
* Social Security Card: Go to http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/251 for information and an application for a new card.
* Driver's License: If you need a get a new driver ' s license or renew the one you have, go to http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Motor_Vehicles.shtml to find the nearest DMV office.
* Birth and death certificates, marriage and divorce decrees: Information on getting replacement certificates of birth, death, marriage and divorce decrees can be found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Website at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm
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* Bank records: You can get information about accessing accounts, lost records, ATM cards and direct deposits by calling the FDIC at 877-275-3342. For information regarding credit unions, call 703-518-6300.
* School records: If you need records from your former primary, secondary, or post-secondary school (whether public or private) the first place you should contact would be your former school. Administrators at the school should be able to tell you where school records are kept and what you need to do to obtain them. If the school you attended is closed, you should contact the appropriate school district. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a part of the Department of Education (ED), has a website which provides locators for public schools http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch , private schools http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch or school districts http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch . Contact information for your State Department of Education is available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/contacts/state/index.html . If you are trying to locate records from a postsecondary school that has closed, you will need to contact your State Higher Education Agency. A list by state is available at
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SHE Your State Higher Education Agency can explain how to find records from closed schools in your state.
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a part of the Department of Education (ED), has a website which provides locators for public schools http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch private schools http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch or school districts http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch
Contact information for your State Department of Education is available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/contacts/state/index.html If you are trying to locate records from a postsecondary school that has closed, you will need to contact your State Higher Education Agency. A list by state is available at http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SHE Your State Higher Education Agency can explain how to find records from closed schools in your state.
* Savings Bonds: If you have old Savings Bonds stashed away somewhere, be careful. Lose them and you can lose the money. At http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ebonds/res_e_bonds_eereplace.htm The Treasury Department tells you exactly what to do with those bonds while you can still find them...and what to do if you can't.
* Contact government agencies: A list of links to federal, state and local government agencies, is available at http://www.usa.gov/Agencies.shtml
* Address Change: To change your address online with the post office go to http://www.usps.com/realmove If you receive Social Security benefits, you can also make an address change online at http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/219 For the IRS you can download a form at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8822.pdf and mail it in.
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