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givve® Card meal subsidy

Save taxes and motivate employees. With the givve® Card meal subsidy, employees have maximum flexibility in the largest possible regional network.

✓ Largest possible network
✓ For the office and home office
✓ Employee catering, even without a canteen
✓ First card solution for the meal subsidy

What is the givve® Card meal subsidy?

With the givve® Card meal subsidy, you as an employer can subsidize your employees' lunch up to 7.50 euros per working day in a tax-optimized way. This salary bonus promotes a positive working atmosphere, increases motivation and productivity and shows your employees your appreciation. By investing in the well-being of your team, you can easily and tastily boost their satisfaction during their lunch break.

Employers advantages

  • Maximum diversity thanks to the largest possible acceptance network
  • Tax-compliant implementation
  • Meal subsidy can even be granted completely tax-free, see calculation example below
  • Minimal administrative effort
  • Appreciate employees and increase motivation with every meal

Employees advantages

  • Can be used in a variety of ways in the largest possible regional acceptance network
  • Advance payment from employer instead of own advance payment
  • No receipts to submit
  • Simply pay with the card
  • Up to 1,350 euros net more per year
  • Allowance cannot expire and can be carried over to the following month

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Maximum freedom when paying

The givve® Card meal subsidy offers the largest regional network for lunchtime meals: In the specified region, it can be used at all restaurants (including fast food), snack bars, pubs and cafés as well as bakeries and butchers that accept Mastercard (> than 170,000 catering establishments in Germany). The same applies to certain delivery services and supermarkets.

The defined region includes the 2 zip code district and all immediately adjacent 2 zip code districts and can be set for each card.

Customize and expand the acceptance network to include your company's own canteen to easily manage the meal subsidy.

Boost employee motivation and save money at the same time

The meal subsidy allows you as an employer to subsidize up to €1,350 per year. You can see what this means compared to a regular salary increase in our example.

Future of the meal subsidy: card instead of paper

Back in 2019, we were one of the first providers to digitize the classic paper meal ticket with the givve® Lunch app. But we know that: The app has reached its limits. That's why we're taking the next step and are the first provider in Germany to present the givve® Card meal subsidy - an innovative, card-based solution.

What is the meal subsidy made up of?

The meal subsidy can also be granted completely tax-free with the givve® Card meal subsidy if the lunch costs at least 11.90 euros. Our graphic shows exactly how the meal subsidy is made up.

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Secure meal subsidy with givve®

The givve® Card meal subsidy enables secure, digital issuing of meal subsidies without administrative effort. Thanks to automated processes and transparent control, you meet all legal requirements with the card.
For the greatest possible security when using the givve® Card for the granting of subsidies for daily meals (meal subsidy), we recommend submitting an application to the responsible tax office.

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Meal subsidy administration made easy

Your benefits can be managed easily and flexibly in the givve® Card Business Portal. From load orders, permanent load orders and card orders. Quickly, intuitively and clearly.

Good to know about the meal subsidy

  • Also possible for home office or part-time employees, even if the company's working time regulations do not provide for corresponding rest breaks.
  • The meal subsidy can be combined with other salary extras, such as tax-free benefits in kind or employee gifts.
  • Employees on a business trip or working away from home may not receive a meal allowance on these days, as they are already entitled to a tax-free meal allowance (expenses).
  • To use the givve® Card meal subsidy, your employees must sign a so-called supplementary agreement. You can download a sample document from the givve® Card Business Portal.

Please note: *We do not provide legal or tax advice. If you have any tax or legal questions about our products, we recommend that you have them checked by your tax or legal advisor. If you wish to use givve's products to achieve certain tax and social security purposes (e.g. benefits in kind), we also recommend that you obtain information from the relevant tax office. givve accepts no liability for ensuring that you actually achieve the intended tax and social security consequences.

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