Restaurant ticket, meal voucher card… Don’t forget to transfer your 2022 balance

Until the end of February, issuers use this credit as a priority. Then, it all depends on the policy of your meal voucher issuer: automatic balance transfer or manual balance transfer.

If you have a balance of 2022 lunch vouchers left on your payment card, beware! Until the end of February, issuers use this credit as a priority. Then, it all depends on the policy of your meal voucher issuer: automatic balance transfer, manual balance transfer, etc. In this case, you will be asked to validate the transfer by email, on the website or on your supplier’s mobile application. Once this is done, your remaining funds from 2022 will be usable until the end of February 2024.

As to checks or paper ticketsthey can be exchanged free of charge for an equal number of passes valid for the subsequent period if you return them to your employer before March 15, 2023. So don’t forget to take stock before the end of the month.

To know. THE daily limit of restaurant tickets went from 19 25 euros on October 1st.

A sling against the paper ticket

For many months, merchants have been railing against the card format, which is gradually replacing paper, because of an operation commission that is too high, when issuers (Edenred, UpDjeuner, Sodexo or Natixis to name the heavyweights of the market) forever pushing for more dematerialization.

The latter once hoped to take advantage of the closure at the end of February of the Securities Settlement Center (CRT) which processes the tickets used by customers to convert them into euros with restaurateurs and bakers.

But faced with the merchants’ concern about not being able to get reimbursed, and who were beginning to refuse them, the directors had to urgently find a common service provider.

Ticket restaurant: this combination to legally exceed the threshold of 25 euros per day

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