Sorry to jump in here but you can claim for more than £21.20 per day as you were away for more than 2 nights. A recent directed letter and JPA Op Bulletin 0706-007 dated 18 Jun 07 changed the policy. In essence if you are away for 2 nights or more there is the facility to "aggregate" the claim. The Op Bulletin mentioned explains how to do this.

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Remember if you phone an isupport and they try to phone you back and cannot reach you then they will close the call to adhere to internal EDS/JPAC stats. Often they will pass a call around the EC to only close it after a few days.

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Some Colleagues visitied JPAC the other week and were given the mega-party line and when they went on the tour they were chaperoned to ensure that there was no filling in of any operators that had been id'd as being one of the 'case closed' crew.

is it just me or are they not being supervised or audited by APC or MOD Contract managers or are both APC and the MOD just not bothered.... where is the press when you need them.

Also it is correct that the firm running JPA is an American Texan based firm? or am i just being somewhat world weary

Originally Posted by deejay075

Sorry to jump in here but you can claim for more than £21.20 per day as you were away for more than 2 nights. A recent directed letter and JPA Op Bulletin 0706-007 dated 18 Jun 07 changed the policy. In essence if you are away for 2 nights or more there is the facility to "aggregate" the claim. The Op Bulletin mentioned explains how to do this.

After discussion with my Auditor he states that the aggregation means that from day 3 onwardsc you just total all the days subsistence and enter them on one line per day rather than one for each expenditure. This means that you are still entitled to 21.20 a day, it just is entered as one 'Days Subsistence'[hr]

Originally Posted by BarryBuddon

Originally Posted by apfsdsdu

Sorry,

Skipped lunch Tuesday - stuff to do back at work :(

Hotel was booked through CHBS, still have the original reference.

Do I need to retain receipts for all expenditure, i.e - I've mislaid the receipt for lunch on the Sunday, or can I claim up to £21 food, without the requirement to keep receipts for 2 years or more?

Now to try and translate your common sense into the computer speek that JPA understands.

Thanks for the help.

You should really keep all receipts however, still claim and if you are auditted it will be up to the discretion of the auditor if they are a bon ouef they will let it go if not then they need to be filled in if they try to recover amounts under a tenner.

Put both my outstanding claims in today, one for £150 the other for £250. Both came up for "Random Audit", what are the chances eh?

It actually means that you can "aggregate" your claims in other words if you spend £25.20 on day one and £17.20 on day two you can claim £42.40 for the 2 days. This gives you greater flexibility and means you do not have to stick to the £21.20 per day. This is only permissable once you have been away for 2 nights or more.

On further discussion I have to agree with Deejay, but remember that the total amount is still £21.20 x number of days away (>3) so if you spend 42.40 on a lobster thermadore on day one you will be eating at Tescos for days 2 & 3 (£10.60 for a days food mmm). I'm off now to beast my Auditor until his arms fall off.

Please could I get a definitive answer on how much to claim for on IE?

I have been given some differing amounts and whether receipts are required or not. As far as I can understand it, can I claim the full amount (UK 5/Overseas 10) without supporting receipts?

If receipts are needed, how do you get a receipt for a phone call or laundry etc?

Cheers in advance

Tubs

onc. IE. Payment of IE to eligible personnel will be via a flat rate (currently £5 in the UK and £10 overseas) and there is no requirement for personnel to retain receipts for IE claims.

There is your answer I have just copied that para from the Directed Letter on allowances. Hope that clears it up now.

Originally Posted by deejay075

onc. IE. Payment of IE to eligible personnel will be via a flat rate (currently 5 in the UK and 10 overseas) and there is no requirement for personnel to retain receipts for IE claims.

There is your answer I have just copied that para from the Directed Letter on allowances. Hope that clears it up now.

Thanks muchly, that's what I've been doing, just thought I'd check...

I've got a question, why are the specialist cell team ignoring my specialist cell issue? Damn them!