A Mountain of Electronic Paperwork
Apr. 27th, 2026 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI am digging through a mountain of electronic paperwork. I opened new bank accounts today, because my current bank account at Huntington Bank pays a miserable rate of interest and I have a severance payment that needs to be making something more than they pay. As it happens, my financial advisor was able to point me at some accounts that his organization can provide that both pay a better rate of interest and which have various bonuses attached to them if I meet the requirements, which I *should* be able to do.
I ended up driving to my financial advisor's office after lunch (which was a short drive from Woodfield Mall where I'd just had lunch) to open the accounts and it turned out that I could have just as easily done all of this from home, as they had to hand me a computer and let me file all of the electronic paperwork for that. By this evening, the accounts had both been opened and I was able to move money from my current accounts to make initial deposits. One down!
Having the account number for the new checking account meant that I could use it in my application for Social Security and Medicare as the target for direct deposits, which is one of the things that I needed to do to collect the bonuses from the new accounts. My application is now filed, although there will be a mountain of documents that need to be submitted somewhere. I'm working on that.
Meanwhile, I now need to complete the application procedure for Gretchen tomorrow, which will include determining whether or not she will get more money on her own employment record or the spousal benefit. This means that both of us will need to be here at the computer.
The dogs will not like this.
I ended up driving to my financial advisor's office after lunch (which was a short drive from Woodfield Mall where I'd just had lunch) to open the accounts and it turned out that I could have just as easily done all of this from home, as they had to hand me a computer and let me file all of the electronic paperwork for that. By this evening, the accounts had both been opened and I was able to move money from my current accounts to make initial deposits. One down!
Having the account number for the new checking account meant that I could use it in my application for Social Security and Medicare as the target for direct deposits, which is one of the things that I needed to do to collect the bonuses from the new accounts. My application is now filed, although there will be a mountain of documents that need to be submitted somewhere. I'm working on that.
Meanwhile, I now need to complete the application procedure for Gretchen tomorrow, which will include determining whether or not she will get more money on her own employment record or the spousal benefit. This means that both of us will need to be here at the computer.
The dogs will not like this.