ANG Commuting
06-19-2009, 10:09 AM
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Position: A-300 F/O
Posts: 281
AFRC pays for IDT travel under certain circumstances based on a law passed last year that took effect in Aug 08 and only is funded through the end of fiscal 10.
You have to be in a critical specialty in a unit that either moved due to BRAC and is trying to offset the reality that most traditionals are not going to move their families away from their spouse's good job and the kid's schools. Or in a unit that is traditionally in a tough to fill location and is having trouble meeting their manning requirements.
You can get up to $300 for actual travel expenses. So, if a reservist buys a $500 airline ticket to get to UTA weekend, they get $300. If a reservist drives their car, they get actual expenses up to $300 to include food they bought along the way, oil they put in the car, lodging if it took them longer than a day to drive to their unit and gasoline used. This is acutal expense for fuel and NOT A REIMBURSEMENT at the federal travel rate. As a result, it takes me about 25 mins to fill out the travel voucher, make copies of receipts, find the 1610 that was cut just to get $15 back at $2.50/gallon for a 340 mile round trip.
It ain't the best system, and I still end up having to calculate the travel deductions for the IRS, and then subtracting out the small pittance they actually paid. The system is sorta screwed up. We have a guy who uses Non-Rev to travel to the closest airport his carrier serves, then rents a car to drive in for the week. He only gets reimbursed for the gas money he put in the car, not for the cost of the rental. I cannot fathom the lack of logic on that one.
You have to be in a critical specialty in a unit that either moved due to BRAC and is trying to offset the reality that most traditionals are not going to move their families away from their spouse's good job and the kid's schools. Or in a unit that is traditionally in a tough to fill location and is having trouble meeting their manning requirements.
You can get up to $300 for actual travel expenses. So, if a reservist buys a $500 airline ticket to get to UTA weekend, they get $300. If a reservist drives their car, they get actual expenses up to $300 to include food they bought along the way, oil they put in the car, lodging if it took them longer than a day to drive to their unit and gasoline used. This is acutal expense for fuel and NOT A REIMBURSEMENT at the federal travel rate. As a result, it takes me about 25 mins to fill out the travel voucher, make copies of receipts, find the 1610 that was cut just to get $15 back at $2.50/gallon for a 340 mile round trip.
It ain't the best system, and I still end up having to calculate the travel deductions for the IRS, and then subtracting out the small pittance they actually paid. The system is sorta screwed up. We have a guy who uses Non-Rev to travel to the closest airport his carrier serves, then rents a car to drive in for the week. He only gets reimbursed for the gas money he put in the car, not for the cost of the rental. I cannot fathom the lack of logic on that one.
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