Hilton Honors allow member’s points upon death to be transferred to a designated party by filing an affidavit.
The executor needs to fill out the form, attach death certificate/proof of death and send the documents to Hilton Honors by email.
You can access Hilton Honors here.
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Here’s the affidavit that is also available on Hilton’s website here:
Conclusion
It would make sense to burn one’s miles and points before the final journey, but not always possible.
More programs now allow points and miles transfers after passing away to a designated party. The easier way could be just to use them online if you have access to usernames and passwords.
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Having gone through this “what if” exercise with our attorneys this winter, we found that most larger airline/hotel/rental companies have either formal or informal methods of doing this. We needed a dollar valuation of the miles/points from them as well, and that process was not so easy. 🤔
Sorry John, using the points after death would be fraud. If caught, bye bye points and the account of the person committing it.
Sorry DissedDiamond, not going to happen with how worthless Hilton points are. Unlike you, these insignificant loyalty programs have better things to do than read every single newspaper obituary to monitor accounts.
Thanks Brad.
Actually, I read the article (as I most always do – LL being a terrific blog):
“The easier way could be just to use them online if you have access to usernames and passwords.”
Maybe I misunderstood, but I read that to mean someone other than the deceased. Someone close enough to not need to read the obits.
That’s good info to know more so with COVID going around. I wonder if it possible to add a second person to your account, like a joint bank account if one half goes the other half can use the points without any forms. Ill put a copy of this in my upon death book with all of my accounts, life insurance and will.
Hilton used to have something called mutual accounts and they are still around for those grandfathered.
Yes. 2 people can be on account. You can also combine accounts between spouses.
This is false you can not join accounts. I am an employee
Me too Boo. Call Hilton Honors with information of both accounts and have them merged into one single account. Pull up your KB next time you log on, ask your DC, or call Hilton Honors yourself and ask.