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Welcome to Frequent Miler's Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back.

On today's coffee break with frequent miler, Chase points boosts explained and evaluated.

We're going to talk all about the Chase points boost today.

In the past, it was very simple.

Chase had a pretty simple system, depending on which card you had. You got either 1.25 cents per

point or 1.5 cents per point when booking travel through Chase travel. However, that's changed,

and it's no longer so simple. Now the base rate is going to be one cent per point standard,

but there are points boosts. And you can get up to

two cents per point, depending on which card you have with the points boosts. Now, if you're an

existing card holder prior to June 23rd of 2025, you're going to get the best of both worlds for a while.

It's a little confusing. We've got more detail in a post. The points you

earn before, October 26th of this year will work at the old rates for a while. It gets very

confusing. So you'll see the linked post in the show description for more information about that.

But the bottom line to know is that if you had either a Sapphire preferred or a Sapphire

Reserve or an ink business preferred before June 23rd, you're going to have a base level of your

old rate of 1.25 or 1.5 cents per point and your existing points for a while. And you'll also

see the points boost that we're going to talk about. But if you're

a new card holder, if you've opened one of those cards since June 23rd, then all you're going to see

are either one cent per point or points boosts. So we're going to talk more about what those are,

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