The Citi ThankYou points transfer feature that lets members move points to another person’s account is going away on May 17, 2026, removing one of the most flexible sharing policies in the transferable currency space.
Citi confirmed the change on its ThankYou help page and the update is hitting cardholder statements now. After the deadline, you can still pool points across cards in your own name, but you can’t send points to anyone else and you can’t receive them either.
What’s Changing
The current policy lets you transfer up to 100,000 ThankYou points per calendar year to another member’s account, and receive up to 100,000. There’s no household requirement. The catch has always been that shared points expire 90 days after the transfer date, though the recipient can move them to a transfer partner during that window to lock in the value.
Starting May 17, 2026, point sharing disappears as a redemption option entirely. The change applies to all Citi ThankYou earning cards, not just one product.
What Still Works After May 17
Combining points between multiple Citi cards in your own name is unaffected. If you have a Strata Premier, a Double Cash, and a Custom Cash all under your name, those points still pool together for transfer partner redemptions.
Transfers to airline and hotel partners are unchanged, the Citi partner lineup all continue to function normally.
What To Do Before The Deadline
If you have a household member with a Citi ThankYou account who could use your points, now is the window. Move them before May 16, 2026, and have the recipient transfer them to a partner program before the 90-day shared-point expiration hits.
If you don’t have a sharing partner lined up, this change doesn’t affect you day-to-day. Your points keep working the same way for your own redemptions.
Bottom Line
Citi had the most permissive points sharing policy among the major transferable currencies, so losing it stings for households that used it. The May 17, 2026 deadline gives you a short runway to move points if you need to. After that, ThankYou points stay with the account that earned them.
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