Can you pass on your Amazon Flex earnings when you die?
Amazon.com Services reviews requests about Amazon Flex earnings after a death case by case.
Protecting Amazon Flex earnings while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, earnings can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 9-step plan.
How to protect your Amazon Flex earnings while you are alive →Someone died. Handling Amazon Flex earnings after a death
Transfer is handled on a case-by-case basis, 7-step process, and 4 required documents.
What happens to Amazon Flex earnings when someone dies →Amazon Flex is Amazon's gig-economy delivery program. Independent-contractor delivery partners reserve delivery blocks, earn per block, and have those earnings paid out to a linked bank account or to the Amazon Flex Debit Card.
Amazon.com Services decides what happens to Amazon Flex earnings after a death case by case; its terms promise no transfer. Amazon.com Services allows no lifetime transfer of earnings; the account holder can only redeem them.
What happens to Amazon Flex at death
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no beneficiary designation on an Amazon Flex account, and Amazon documents no way to transfer the account to an heir.2
Other companies and product lines involved2
- Green Dot Bank Customer Care
Any Amazon Flex Debit Card balance; the card is a Green Dot Bank deposit account Amazon is not a party to3
Phone: 1-855-676-0678
Mailing address: Customer Care, P.O. Box 9, West Chester, OH 45071-0009
- Amazon Emergency Helpline
Prop 22 burial-expense and accidental death claims for injuries while delivering in California4
Phone: 1-844-311-0406
Amazon.com Services publishes its own process for a deceased person's account: Amazon Bereavement Support; a written request goes by email to bereavement-support-cs@amazon.com. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on an Amazon Flex account.
Sources
Data sourced from Amazon.com Services LLC primary sources (9 pages reviewed). How we research.
Amazon Flex customer support
Amazon Flex Driver Support
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