In Luxembourg: “Paying for your fuel with restaurant vouchers is illegal”

As the end-of-year holidays approach, the temptation is great to use your meal vouchers to shop in stores. However, recalls Edenred, one of the main companies managing restaurant vouchers in Luxembourg, “the meal voucher is intended, as its name indicates, to purchase food goods. Acceptance for other goods and services is therefore not permitted. In accordance with our contractual conditions, any merchant who does not comply with the legislation is subject to exclusion from the system.

However, many merchants in the Grand Duchy continue to accept meal vouchers to pay for purchases that have nothing to do with food, including certain service stations when motorists want to pay for their fuel tank. “It’s illegal,” repeats the managing company, which adds that digitalization allows better control of the correct allocation of titles and that these have already given rise in the recent past to exclusions of traders who did not play fair. game.

Remember that the ceiling authorized by Luxembourg legislation is five meal vouchers per day. For certain employees, the maximum is 75 euros, if they obtain 15 euro vouchers from their employer. For others, this maximum reaches 54 euros, for unit titles of 10.80 euros. Furthermore, an employee can use their card several times on the same day, within the limit of their daily limit.

Contacted by The essentialsthe management company says it has been issuing 100% of its securities in digital form since November 2023. Its last paper title had a maturity date of February 28, 2024. A competing company, Pluxee, indicates that it will go 100% digital on the 1st January 2025. Paper meal vouchers already issued by this company will remain valid until February 28, 2025.

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