Planning ahead for your Gold+ points
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for Hertz points
While Hertz does allow post-death transfer of points, lifetime planning gives the account holder more control over how points are shared and used.
Gold+ allows members to transfer points to other program members during their lifetime. Fees may apply, but this is a direct way to move points to family members while you are alive.
How to protect your Gold+ points
5 steps for managing your Gold+ points during your lifetime:
- •Points are removed from the account after 12 consecutive months of no rental activity (soft expiration)
- •Points also expire 5 years from the date earned regardless of activity (hard expiration, effective December 31, 2024)
- •Point transfers do not count as rental activity and do not reset either clock
Family sharing
Points can be transferred to or from any immediate family member who is also a Hertz Gold+ member, at most once per calendar year (the limit is waived for death or divorce with official documentation). The receiving family member must have earned or redeemed at least one point on a rental in the prior 12 months. Both accounts must be at least 72 hours old. Point transfers do not qualify as rental activity and do not reset the transferring or receiving account's 12-month activity clock. Transfers are only between Hertz Gold+ accounts, not to airline, hotel, or Amtrak loyalty programs.
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).
An inventory listing the Gold+ account lets a fiduciary identify it and act on it through the operator's official channels.
Gold+ does not offer beneficiary designations, so there is no program-level mechanism for directing points to a specific person at death.
Sources
Data sourced from Hertz primary sources (7 pages reviewed). How we research.
