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Lyft just announced a fantastic deal. You can earn 2,000 bonus Hilton points, 250 bonus SkyMiles, and bonus Chase Ultimate Rewards (or cashback) while donating to make a difference. And all you need to make is a single $5 donation to Lyft's Fund a Ride program.
This promotion lasts until May 31, 2021, and not everyone will be able to claim every benefit. However, everyone has the opportunity to get more than a 100% value return on a $5 donation.
The Deal
- Link your Hilton Honors and Delta SkyMiles accounts to Lyft.
- Donate at least $5 to Lyft's vaccine access fund before May 31, 2021
- Receive 2,000 Hilton Honors points (at least a $10 value)
- If you're in the first 15,000 members to make a donation, receive 250 Delta SkyMiles (at least a $2.75 value)
Donate with Chase to Get Bonus Points or Cashback
If you make your donation using a Chase card, you can earn bonus points or get cashback on your Lyft purchase. If you use any of the following cards, you will get 5x total points on your Lyft donation, i.e. 25 points for a $5 donation:
- Chase Sapphire Reserve® (10X points — see more below)
- Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card (5X points)
- Chase Freedom® (5% cashback)
- Chase Freedom Flex℠ (5% cashback)
- Chase Freedom Unlimited® (5% cashback)
- Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card (5X points)
- Ink Plus® Business Credit Card (5X points)
- Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card (5% cashback)
- Ink Business Cash® Credit Card (5% cashback)
This promotion is good on all Lyft purchases through March 2022. Not only will you get bonus points, but you can also utilize the Chase Pay Yourself Back option. While Lyft rides don't typically qualify, Chase will add the option to Pay Yourself Back for these donations in the next few weeks.
The Pay Yourself Back redemption rate varies by card. But, on the Sapphire Preferred and Ink Preferred, you'll get 1.25 cents per point. In other words, you can use 400 points to pay yourself back the $5 donation. And you'll still earn 25 points for the $5 donation.
Even Better Return with Sapphire Reserve
If you have the Sapphire Reserve, the rewards are even better. Sapphire Reserve cardholders earn 10x points back on all Lyft purchases — including donations to this Lyft Fund:
On top of that, you can Pay Yourself Back at 1.5 cents per point. If you make a $5 donation to Lyft to get the above bonuses, you'll earn 50 Chase points. Then you only need 333 points to Pay Yourself Back for the $5 donation.
Bottom Line
If you have both your Hilton Honors and Delta SkyMiles accounts connected to Lyft when you donate with a Chase Sapphire, Freedom, or Ink card, you'll get 2,000 Hilton Honors points, 250 Delta SkyMiles, 25 Chase Ultimate Rewards points, and can recoup your $5 donation no more than 400 Chase points. If you have the Sapphire Reserve, you'll get an additional 25 Ultimate Rewards points and can recover your $5 with only 333 points.
That all sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me!
Are you going to make a donation to claim all the bonuses?
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Got Delta bonus 2 weeks later and just got the Hilton bonus today (3 weeks later)
Earned all three as of today. Earned the 10x UR points (50 total) immediately with my Sapphire Preferred, 250 SkyMiles points posted 8 days later, and the 2000 Hilton points posted after 22 days. I’ve copied the following from my Chase account, for a $5 donation via the CSP:
+ Points earned on Lyft: 40
+ 1 Point per $1 earned on travel: 5
+ 1 Point per $1 earned on all purchases: 5
Total Ultimate Rewards® points: 50
Just in case anyone wondered as I did: the receipt says, “Your purchase is …(NOT) eligible for tax deduction as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. “
Saw that as well. I’m no accountant, but I have to believe that’s because we received a benefit (points) in exchange for our donation, so it’s not a straight, pure act of charity.
Truly a worthwhile cause, made even better if there’s a point bonus! Any sense of when we might see the points post? Thanks again!
I saw this and immediately went to possibly get a bonus. We will see if I get a bonus. It is a nice boost if you’re helping out. I didn’t know that it was possible to put in some payment to help others get a ride. I wonder how many people know that they could get a ride covered?
Great promo; I donated via Chase Sapphire Reserve. Win-win all around!
Kudos to Lyft, Hilton Honors, Delta Skymiles, Chase Bank for offering this, and thank you, AwardWallet, for publicizing this.
Great promo! Anybody know if the Delta limit has been reached yet?
I did the donation, and charged it to my Sapphire Reserve card. Oddly, it’s only giving me 7 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar (the Lyft bonus points, but not the normal points for travel purchases), which is really weird. My guess is Chase will fix that. But folks making this donation might want to keep an eye on it to make sure. Are others seeing the same issue?
This is a very nice project to help those get their vaccine.
I’ve done the donation too.
Now, it would be interesting to know how much time it’s necessary for the points to post.
I heard about this first on DoC, and didn’t want to miss out on the Delta Skymiles component, so I went for it. Besides, I’m about to be fully vaccinated, and virtue is in wanting for others what one wants for oneself.
I made the donation but didn’t receive any confirmation or way to check if it triggered the bonus points. I did confirm from the Lyft app that both Delta and Hilton accounts are already linked as rewards accounts from previous time.
That’s all we can do for now! Hopefully the bonus points and miles won’t take long to post.
My bet is that the Delta miles are already gone; I bet they hit 15,000 donations pretty quickly. We’ll see.
Looks like I was overly pessimistic: the Delta miles just posted to my account. No sign of the Hilton points yet, but presumably they’re just taking a bit longer.
Sounds like a worthwhile endeavor and points to boot, too. Done.
Easy points are always welcome, especially when coupled with a good cause 🙂
I love this! It’s something I’m happy to donate to, and I also love being able to stack benefits to maximize opportunities. Thanks for bringing us excellent content like this.
There were so many of these bonus offers years ago. It is nice that they are back. 🙂
Thanks for letting us know about this offer!
I’ve made the donation. It’s a nice idea and extremely quick and easy.
Looks like it’s either delta or hilton, received following error msg when I try to do both:
We located your account details and noticed that your SkyMiles account is already linked to a Lyft account. Note, you can only link one SkyMiles account to one Lyft account at a time. If you’d like to update your Lyft account, continue to modify your accounts.
Those of us at AwardWallet have been able to register for both! Perhaps you already registered for the Delta/Lyft promotion? I’m getting the same error now when I try to re-register.
It’s been well over a year since my last Lyft ride, but I recall that I got both Hilton and Delta points for the rides because both were linked to my Lyft account. In fact Lyft was my last Delta earning of miles (late 2019); can’t check Hilton because they only show 12 months of activity.
Just donated, and it was very easy. If you haven’t used Lyft in a while because of the pandemic, be sure to check and update your credit card in the Lyft app before you donate, as it may have expired. My card had expired, so I updated it, and it appeared right away when I went to donated.