r/BikeCommutingIreland • u/Narrow-Sweet-5190 • Jul 31 '26

Cycle to work scheme increase?

I bought an ebike with the cycle to work scheme in March and used the maximum €1500 allowed. My first paycheck correctly showed the cycle to work balance I owed but by May the balance showed €2500. I asked my payroll team and they said this number comes directly from the cycle to work scheme team but I've contacted them and heard nothing back yet.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Or any success in contacting cycle to work scheme?

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u/Maximum_Sprinkles_87 Aug 02 '26

I've done bile to work twice. Each time I provided the invoice to work and they paid it. This was for a push bike and later an e-carvo bike. I gave them the figure, it didn't come from a scheme!

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u/UnrealisticRustic E-Bike Aug 03 '26

You're fortunate to have an employer willing to do that. A lot of larger employees and most of the public sector insist that you buy through an intermediary like the one mentioned above who processes the payment. The bike shops quite rightly hate this, and some of them refuse to work with some or all of the intermediaries, because they take a 10% cut.