How to protect your Gold+ points while you are alive
There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Gold+ account. While the account holder is alive, Hertz allows transfers to another member and transfers to a partner program.
Hertz's terms provide a path for Gold+ points after a death, and what the account holder sets up in advance decides how smoothly that path runs. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Gold+ account. While the account holder is alive, Hertz allows transfers to another member and transfers to a partner program.
How to protect your Gold+ points
- •All points are forfeited and removed after 12 consecutive months of no rental activity.
- •Standard points are valid for five years from the date they were earned; the five-year expiration does not apply to residents of Canada.
- •Transferring points to a family member and redeeming points at booking do not count as rental activity; completing the rental booked with those points does.
- •Bonus points from a limited time promotion carry an earlier expiration date disclosed in that promotion's terms.
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no way to name a beneficiary on a Gold+ account; points move only by a transfer to an immediate family member who is also a Gold+ member.1
What Hertz's terms say about sharing and transfers3
- Transfers to another member
A member may transfer or receive Gold+ points to or from an immediate family member who is also a member, once per calendar year; the receiving member must have rental activity in the prior 12 months. Transferred points typically appear online within 24 hours, and a Hertz representative can see it the same day.1
Transfers must be initiated by the member who owns the points; requests made by the receiving member cannot be processed. Transfers run only between Gold+ accounts and cannot be used for airline, hotel or other travel programs.1
The Gold+ Terms and Conditions state, under "Are Hertz Gold+ Transferable?", that points are only transferable to a member's spouse or domestic partner, a narrower rule than the FAQ's immediate-family transfer.2
A family member who is not yet a Gold+ member can join for free at hertz.com or in the app.3
- Transfers to a partner program
Points can be exchanged for frequent traveler miles or points with participating partners, from a 600-point minimum balance in 600-point increments; once exchanged, the partner program's own rules govern, and certain participating accounts may not be permitted to exchange points.2
- Expiry and activity requirements
All points are forfeited and removed after 12 consecutive months of no rental activity. Standard points are valid for five years from the date they were earned; the five-year expiration does not apply to residents of Canada.1
Transferring points to an immediate family member and redeeming points at booking do not count as rental activity; completing the rental booked with those points does. Bonus points from a limited time promotion carry an earlier expiration date disclosed in that promotion's terms.1
The Gold+ Terms and Conditions state that points do not expire as long as the member has a Gold+ program rental in the prior 12 months, without the five-year rule the FAQ gives.2
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Sources
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