How Most Credit Cards’ COVID-19 Relief Package Don’t Actually Help Us

For years, we’ve read from multiple travel blogs, credit card blogs, and every travel media outlet how the Chase Sapphire credit cards, especially the Chase Saphhire Reserve are the best credit card option for travelers.

It goes so far in the travel world that The Points Guy blog promotes the credit card non-stop, and presents it with an annual award at their gala each year. One time, Brian Kelly (The Points Guy namesake) even famously wore a suit made out of Chase Sapphire Reserve cards.

But, as so often happens, corporations and banks show their true colors in times of need. The past month during quarantine and lockdowns and the “New York Pause,” myself and 6+ million others have lost work. We’ve lost contracts, jobs, businesses are shutting down.

As soon as I started to feel the economic pain from this process, I reached out to my banks and credit cards to see what they were doing. Most of my credit card debt is with Chase and they were the…