NHS Bursary and Housing Benefit

sammi.jo

We were always told the difference between placements and uni.

I live in West London, and my university is in central London. Travel, had I not had a Freedom Pass for the afternoon, would be a lot more than that. For the mornings that I have to get the train, that means it's £3 a day just to get THERE. That alone comes to a lot more than the travel allowance.

Anyway - I phoned the HB place back, and they're paying all but £30 of my rent a week :j

emg

bigjl wrote: »

I work for the NHS, when we have to work at somewhere further than our base station we get the extra only, not the entire journey. The fact that they want to know the difference between your journey to your college and the journey to your placement would infer that they will only pay the difference between the two, not the entire journey.

I work for the NHS and we claim our mileage differently to that. We have to state the mileage we have done vs the mileage it would have been to that place from base, we then get paid the lower of the two mileages. E.g. if I go straight from home to somewhere that is one mile away from my house but 7 miles from my base then i get paid the one mile each way (even though I have done less mileage than my normal commute). If I go somewhere 7 miles from home but 1 mile from base then i would get paid 1 mile each way.

I know its not that relevant but just interesting to see that different trusts seem to have different rules for claiming mileage.