American Express Membership Rewards - Death of a Reward Holder

Does anyone know what happens to your rewards when you die? My wife uses my rewards all the time. Can she keep doing this if I am dead?

shes authorized to [make] MR transactions? thats all you need to do.

edited to fix :D

shes authorized to making MR transactions? thats all you need to do.

I'm not sure about that. If I recall the T&Cs, she may not be able to. But I don't have them in front of me.

Best of luck.

Does anyone know what happens to your rewards when you die? My wife uses my rewards all the time. Can she keep doing this if I am dead?

I was an authorized user on my fathers cards when he passed away. I also have my own AMEX cards. I called them and they put the cards in my name and sent me new cards. I didn't lose any of the rewards.

I'm sure they did this because there was a balance on one of the cards which I am now responsible for. I would have paid it off anyway but they didn't know this.

if someone is an authorized user, and authorized to use MR, i would think they would be given the option of becoming primary upon death of the primary..

unless there is a balance, and then it would automatically go to either authorized user or those specified in the will/etc, right?

My father passed away years ago, and my mother was a secondary card holder on his Amex account. I believe she may have had to fax Amex a death certificate (but I think the process was rather seemless)...we subsequently used the points to go to Europe several times