Mileage rate- What should I bill a bank for?

colino

I'm pretty sure they want to press the flesh over the veracity of the PoA more than inconvenience anyone over money transfer.

Lum

While I doubt this will get anywhere. If you insist on trying, the HMRC approved rate of 45p per mile would be a good figure to go for. This allegedly covers both fuel and wear and tear on vehicles and is the rate they recommend employers pay to staff who use their own vehicles for business purposes.

somethingcorporate

Do you not have any friends near to them you can transfer the cash to and get them to drop it off.

Seems like you are picking such a method just to be difficult, there are plenty of other (more sensible) ways of getting money to them.

kazwookie

Like some one else has said, buy the food etc on line get it delivered to them.

If the gas / electric / phone people need paying find out from them the ££ and account numbers and get that paid.

If need be send the parents a postal order, they can take to the post office and cash.

Then set to and sort out the cause of the problem

Good luck

Lum

To be fair, depending on the amount of cash involved, postal orders and western union may be more expensive than just driving up there with a suitcase full of money.

The OP will need to demonstrate that this is the case if they do actually try to claim for this, so get quotes from the post office and western union.

HappyMJ

Lum wrote: »

To be fair, depending on the amount of cash involved, postal orders and western union may be more expensive than just driving up there with a suitcase full of money.

The OP will need to demonstrate that this is the case if they do actually try to claim for this, so get quotes from the post office and western union.

Western Union is about £11 for amounts up to £400. That won't cover driving 440 miles. At 45p a mile that'll be enough to drive about 12 miles away. £400 is enough for anyone for a week or two.

Lum

Unless they have a rent or mortgage payment due, and assuming the elderly parents can actually make it to a Western Union branch.


Yes I realise I'm playing a bit of devils advocate here, and that this probably isn't going to work anyway, but I can think of situations where the "obvious" suggestions being made in this thread would not work, depending on the parents locations and any disabilities.

HappyMJ

Lum wrote: »

Unless they have a rent or mortgage payment due, and assuming the elderly parents can actually make it to a Western Union branch.


Yes I realise I'm playing a bit of devils advocate here, and that this probably isn't going to work anyway, but I can think of situations where the "obvious" suggestions being made in this thread would not work, depending on the parents locations and any disabilities.

Rent or mortgage can be paid by BACS. There are 10 WU outlets within a short walk of my home and I only live in a smallish town. A short 5 minute taxi ride away at the most.

JQ.

Lum wrote: »

Unless they have a rent or mortgage payment due, and assuming the elderly parents can actually make it to a Western Union branch.


Yes I realise I'm playing a bit of devils advocate here, and that this probably isn't going to work anyway, but I can think of situations where the "obvious" suggestions being made in this thread would not work, depending on the parents locations and any disabilities.

What are the situations where the "obvious" solutions don't work?

zzzLazyDaisy

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Amazingly, Yorkshire Bank do have branches outside of Yorkshire.

Yes. They do. In fact mum didn't live in yorkshire herself. But there were no branches anywhere near where we lived at the time - and in any case the branch insisted that we had to deal with the branch concerned.