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Verizon Communications Inc. has a transfer process for Verizon accounts after the account holder dies. Lifetime planning complements this by giving the account holder direct control over accounts while alive.

How to protect your Verizon accounts

Here are 5 steps to protect and manage your Verizon accounts while the account is active:

Add a trusted family member as an Account Manager or Account Member so they already have standing on the account, which makes the after-death transfer far simpler than an outside executor request.

Record the Verizon Account Owner name, the phone numbers/lines on the account, and the Account PIN where your executor can find them, since Verizon asks for these to process a transfer, disconnect, or closure.

Note any device payment-plan or device-lease balances so your survivor can choose knowingly between returning the device (remaining balance forgiven) and keeping it (remaining balance billed).

Decide which phone numbers should be kept and by whom, and write it down. The number can be transferred to a new or different Verizon account or ported to another carrier, but only if the line is transferred rather than left to disconnect.

Do not count Verizon Dollars or Verizon Up / myAccess rewards as something you can pass on. They are non-transferable, expire on their own schedule, and are forfeited when Verizon service is terminated, so redeem anything worth using before the account is closed.

Family sharing

Verizon accounts support an Account Owner plus assigned Account Managers and Account Members who share a single account and its lines. Managers and members can be granted access during the Account Owner's lifetime, which is what makes the after-death account transfer straightforward when a survivor is already on the account. Rewards are tied to the account rather than shared as a transferable balance: under the Verizon Dollars terms, only the account owner and assigned account managers can access and redeem the rewards, and the Dollars cannot be split off, sold, gifted, or assigned to another account or party.

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).

Frequently asked questions

Add a trusted family member as an Account Manager or Account Member so they already have standing on the account, and record the Account Owner name, the phone numbers, and the Account PIN where your executor can find them. Note any device payment-plan or lease balances so a survivor can choose between returning the device (balance forgiven) and keeping it (balance billed), and redeem any Verizon Dollars or Verizon Up rewards worth using, since they are non-transferable and forfeited when service is terminated.

Listing the Verizon account in an estate inventory identifies it for a fiduciary, who works through the operator's official channels to manage or close it.

Verizon does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated July 8, 2026

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