Yes, and why would they?

When I was status matched, I made sure I booked to fly on AC and credited all of my flights to AC while they assessed if I qualify. Good faith should be shown by both parties. I was showing good faith that despite no status with AC at the time, I was still crediting on Altitude to prove that I went from very little flying to a "lot" (E50K flying levels at the time), so was granted E50K. My status match also went to the next year, and I had to re qualify from the time they gave me status to the next CY