Changing my iCloud account name to my new apple ID name.

I have recently changed my email address.  In doing so, I changed my apple ID user name to reflect this change.  Apple recognizes the change to my username and has verified it through "My apple id".  I've also made the changes under my user name on my macbook.  However, I'm not able to apply these changes to my iCloud account, which still shows my old apple username.  When I go through system preferences on my computer, click on iCloud and then account details, there is no forum for me to make changes.  What am I doing wrong?

You can't. Even if you could contact Apple, they won't do it unless you want to clear the balance instead of moving it between accounts; this is generally only useful when the balance is stopping you from changing countries.
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