Using wife's points
 

All - I am PPE but I have a bunch of points in my wife's account. Is there any way for me to book some award rooms using her points so that we can get my benefits like upgrades, etc? I have already transferred 100K from her account so I am looking for some datapoints where Marriott has allowed us to make spouse bookings under these circumstances.

Sounds like what you are asking for is what Hilton used to call a Mutual Account, but is not available anymore. Member accounts are for the members benefit, not anyone they may know related or not. We are allowed to spend points on rooms for anyone we know. We can contact the property to make sure they know our status so on-site benefits are offered appropriately.

In my history, when checking in to a room booked by a member of a lower status, on-site benefits matching my status were always offered once informing the FDC of my status, totally within their prerogative and not program mandated.

There are a few options:

1. Order the award (using her points) but with your name on the award reservation and cert. You can't do that online, but you can call MR and they will order the award from her account but in your name.
2. AFAIK, Marriott still allows more than 100K points to be transferred from one account to another when ordering an award. For example, if you have 100K in your account and she has 200K in hers. If you wanted to order a 300K TP award from your account, you can pull the 200K from her account into yours when the award it being ordered.
3. This may not always work for all the PPE benefits, but at check-in, give them your MR# and show them your PPE status. They might be willing to check for upgrades. If they offer the Plat check-in amenity, I'd suggest going for the F&B credit or whatever is offered during that stay (i.e. NOT the amenity points) as Marriott's system may not recognize you as the primary person and not process those points.

Thank you so much hhoope01. I will call MR and book the award and report back.

Unless Marriott rules have changed, book them in your account with points transferred from her account.

How to combine and transfer Marriott points (for free!)

Rules changed, 100K maximum per year for whatever reason

Kind of answering your question. I was with my wife at the start of her business trip recently at a Marriott in the Bay Area booked via her company's travel agents. My wife has no status, but I was able to apply my Marriott PPE status to the length of her stay since I was there at check-in (I left after the first night). All billing went through her company per the original booking.

Surprising upshot. My account received the 6 nights and 40K points for the stay.

Is this per calendar year or a year since last transfer?