From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 28/09/2025 04:45 pm, Handsome Jack wrote:> On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 
  
 11:40:25 +0100, JNugent wrote: 
  
 >> Interesting. At present, nobody has a duty to keep the authorities 
 up >> to date with their address (except for people with specific orders to 
 >> do so, such as those on the Sex Offenders Register or otherwise under 
 >> some sort of official supervision such as probation or early release 
 >> from prison). 
 > 
 > Or people in receipt of DWP benefits, or who have to file tax returns, or 
 > pay council tax. 
 > 
 > When a public sector body who deals with an individual needs to notify 
 > them of anything, they will use the correspondence address they have 
 > on file, just like any other body does. 
 > 
 >> But I have read that some countries, even in the EU, do put such an 
 >> obligation on every resident. In such a situation, there's less 
 >> trouble for the public sector in notifying persons of decisions, 
 >> demands, obligations, etc. 
 > 
 > If the individual hasn't kept (say) HMRC up to date with his 
 > correspondence address, he could just as easily not have kept his ID 
 > card address up to date either, so there's little practical 
 > difference. 
 > 
 >> Perhaps that rule could be introduced here, courtesy of the ID card? 
 > 
 > Why? 
 > 
 >> And why not? 
 > 
 > Because it introduces an extra obligation on people to do things they 
 > didn't have to do before, 
  
 But you already DO have to supply the government with your current 
 address for a variety of different reasons. 
  
 > costing time and effort and perhaps penalties if 
 > they forget to do it. And their address becomes available to a large 
 > number of people who don't need it and who might leak it (just as 
 > HMRC did with millions of taxpayers' addresses a few years ago, and 
 > as the MoD recently did with hundreds of thousands of Afghans). And 
 > meantime the existing system seems to work adequately... 
  
 ...until the Revenue, DWP, DVLA the police or the courts (etc) need the 
 address and don't have it. 
  
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