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AARP Rewards is back online!

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 17, 2025
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We are happy to share AARP Rewards program is now back online. Most features are available, and you can now earn, redeem points and purchase discounted gift cards.

Unfortunately, Instant Wins and Sweepstakes are not currently available. we are working to bring them back to the program as soon as possible.

We understand that the program interruption has been frustrating, and we want to sincerely thank you for your understanding. Please accept 500 bonus points on us. Claim your
points by entering MAKEGOOD on the AARP Rewards site.

in addition, we will extend all points scheduled to expire on October 1st to November 1st, giving you an extra month to redeem.

For details see the points expiration section in your transaction history.

Thank you for being a valued part of the AARP Rewards community.

andrewtoo

Community Champion ⭐⭐

!!!

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SeanK1

Contributor ⭐⭐

500 points? That's a joke right? 3 weeks without a program and we get 500?

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rg54078

Contributor ⭐

I'm genuinely thankful that AARP offers us points, they’re not obligated to do so. The program terms clearly address service interruptions, and many other loyalty programs wouldn’t offer any kind of adjustment in similar situations. I appreciate the effort AARP makes to recognize its members.

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ridgeviewfarm

Conversationalist ⭐

I would not call two weeks without access a service interruption.

a170760g

Contributor ⭐⭐

I like that the site is back up, but I did all the Extra Credit back on Sept. 1 & was not able to get any gift cards because of the snafu. All of the gift cards I tried to get then are gone - the current list of gift cards has none of the better choices. Please add a bunch of decent gift cards to Rewards.

Thanks, Andy

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dh88588799

Contributor ⭐

You would have thought with 3 weeks they could have rounded up some nicer gift cards!

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MariaK113398

Conversationalist ⭐⭐

Maybe in the meantime all the FruitBouquet and Baja Fresh gift cards will sell out, they just keep piling up!

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l954296h

Contributor ⭐

Where are the instant wins?

AARPTeriAuthor

Community Manager

As mentioned in the post - Unfortunately, Instant Wins and Sweepstakes are not currently available. We are working to bring them back to the program as soon as possible.

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ridgeviewfarm

Conversationalist ⭐

What happened to last month's Sweepstakes' winners? Were there any?

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Linda2000

Contributor ⭐⭐

Thanks for the update. Hopefully, the instant wins are back soon.

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BtW751689

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BtW751689

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KennethK249742

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When do we get some decent redemptions for points instead of the stupid endless e-cards? Does anyone ever bother with those?

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BtW751689

Community Champion ⭐⭐

AARP you need to step up to the plate. Your system malfunction resulted in 17 days that we were unable to fully earn and use our points which is why many of us choose to visit the site. This is over 100,00 lost points. 100,000. Thanks for the 500 points but don't you think you owe us more? Not to mention for 17 days we could not redeem anything even if we played your cat and mouse game of trying to find enough point earning activities. So we did not get a chance to earn our points and we did not get a chance to redeem them. And now the instant wins and sweepstakes are not available either. I guess there is not remedy from AARP for any of these problems.

SummerOnTheWay1

Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐

📎 [Thursday 9/18/25 6:40am ET]

@AARPTeri , Denese @WebWiseWoman [retired IT person] SOLVED "error message" for the "free" 500 points AARP gave to members. Since they are NOT BONUS but part of our MAXIMUM DAILY POINTS, if you were already "maxed" out YESTERDAY (Wednesday 9/17/25) when they became "available" = member has to wait for DATE TO ROLL OVER to 9/18/25. AARP really needs to "hire" her as a Consulting IT Person. Thank you Denese!!! Nicole!

WebWiseWoman

Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐

Ha, ha, Nicole... several of us retired "nerds" actually volunteered (= for no pay) to consult/beta test/QA for the entire AARP site portfolio many moons ago but response was 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗...

Thanks for always being there for everyone; now go clear out all those "no-nos" your daughter shouldn't find when she visits next week 😉

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