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TPG reader Trevor sent me a message on Facebook to ask about combining Ultimate Rewards points:
You can send points from one card to another, as well as to the Ultimate Rewards accounts of household members (and business partners in the case of the Ink Plus Business Card). There’s no need to wait — the only reason to store points in your Chase Freedom account is if you’re canceling another card and want to keep your rewards active. Aside from that, you might as well transfer all your points to a premium account, since that’s the one you’ll eventually use to redeem them.
On the other hand, there’s no real incentive to transfer points now if you don’t have an immediate plan to redeem them. Your rewards aren’t going anywhere (again, unless you close your account), so it doesn’t matter too much one way or the other.
The rules and strategies are a bit different for other transferable points programs. Citi ThankYou Rewards operates much like Ultimate Rewards: Points earned on different cards are kept separate, but you can combine them online. However, some ThankYou Rewards points are subject to expiration, and Citi continues to track points individually once they’re combined. Pooling won’t help keep your rewards active, and keeping them separate makes it a bit easier to track which ones are expiring.
Amex Membership Rewards already pools points from different cards into a single account, so there’s no need to combine them manually. The same goes for Starwood Preferred Guest (and other airline and hotel loyalty programs).
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