It was time for my annual battle to get a Government Gateway ID set up. I've never before managed to get it to work - today I did.
However.
In order to get it to work, it forced me through three questions. One was about previous personal hire contracts, and another was about mobile phone contracts. All fine, answered those.
The third, though, and this is where it fell over before, is that it asks "which of the following addresses have you been associated with"? It offers four or five choices, none containing the town, just a number and a road.
As always before, the list it offers was meaningless to me - none of them is not an option however.
I stabbed one at random. Amazingly, it said ok, and took me through. Gateway ID created, security checks passed.
I then googled the partial address I'd said "yes" to, and it's a street in the next village. An unusual road name and I think it's probably unique.
It still means nothing to me. Should I be worried, and how do I check if there's an issue of some sort here? I don't know anything about credit agencies etc.
I suspect trying to get an answer from "the government" is entirely pointless, so wondered if anyone here has had similar, or has any grown up suggestions?
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