Meal tickets are valuable with a number of security features to increase their safety. Vouchers valid for a given year are issued from 1 October of the previous calendar year a are valid until 31 December of the given calendar year. The vouchers are therefore always valid for only 12 months. We therefore recommend that you spend them on an ongoing basis. Unused vouchers can only be returned by your employerwhich provided them to you at any time during their period of validity, but no later than 20 January of the year following their expiry.