Merging icloud accounts (with storage plans)

Hi all! For reasons I cannot possibly recall I now manage TWO different icloud accounts. With one account I have also purchased a storage plan, but the device is connected to the other one.
What I wish to do is to merge both accounts into the account I am logged in with on my device. However, this is NOT the account I have the storage plan purchased on. I believe I have to transfer the storage plan and the contents from the old account to the new one, and hopefully close (or simply desert) the one unused.
Is that even possible?
Thanks!

Sign out of the account you do not wish to use, sign into the one that you do wish to use.

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Answer found by calling a technician. I needed to delete the icloud account on the iphone, but the delete account was not visible to me at first. It was a control below the bottom of the screen in the general preference>icloud page. Once I scrolled down to it, I saw the delete account button. After deleting the account, I had the option to remake it with the correct email.
Still, it was interesting to assess the responsiveness of this community.

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