Edenred

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I had been buying Edenred vouchers with my previous employer Centrica, due to covid I have 1000s left in my account and my children are no longer of an age where I can make use of them. I have tried to get a refund and will declare to HMRC accordingly. However, Edenred claim they do not hold funds, they claim it is Centrica and Centrica claims it is Edenred and they should refund me. It all seems like a scam to me and the more I think about it, I don't think I'm alone or the only one to fall for a systematic scam! Any advice?

I am in the same position. It needs to be refunded from your employer, but is completely dependent on the employer being willing to do it. I am not even with the same employer, so have £800 of vouchers I just can’t do anything with.

I assume you know you can use them up until your child turns 16, and can use them for holiday clubs, wrap around care etc. I am currently trying to persuade my teens to go on a PGL holiday to use them up.

I’ve used them for Stagecoach and PGL as the DCs have got older. If they are worthless to you I’d suggest you lodge them with a nursery/ childcare provider to help out parents who would have a use for them. Kings camps also take them (but my DCs weren’t keen).

lodge them with a nursery/ childcare provider to help out parents who would have a use for them

I didn’t know you could do that. Is that definitely the case? I thought it could only be used to pay for your own children. If that’s the case then I would rather do that than persuade my kids to go on a holiday that they are not even that keen on. I just don’t like the idea of them being wasted.

Hi, just checked on another thread and they say selling them is tantamount to tax fraud! 🙁

Well I wouldn’t have thought you could sell them, but presumably you could give them away to someone who needed them (or probably would need to pay an invoice on their behalf). I guess if it came down to it you might find it difficult to prove you hadn’t been reimbursed though.

funtech.co.uk/latest/15-summer-camps-that-accept-childcare-vouchers-this-year

Any use?

Just in case this helps anyone else. Ive not needed childcare since the pandemic began so I reduced my payment down to £1 per month in case our situation changes. Hoping to avoid having too much banked in case I can't claim it back, I feel like £12 a year to lose is worth it just to keep the option open. Tempted to try and reduce it to 1p but haven't got the guts to go that low in case it triggers some kind of withdrawal.