Travel allowance

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Hi, I currently work picking up, delivering & serving school meals. As I use my own car to pick up the school meals from a different school, I get £12.05 a day from my employer for diesel & the use of my own car, I'm paid for 7 miles i believe. My question is should this travel allowance be included in my total pay for universal credits? I know this may be that my employer needs to report it to hmrc differently, as thats where universal credits get their info from, but before I speak to my employer I need an answer first. I spoke to universal credits who said to ask hmrc, so I spoke to hmrc & they said to ask universal credits. My wages are usually around the £750 per month, but £250-£300 of that are the travel allowance. Should universal credit take into account the whole £700 or just my salary thats only £400?
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So it looks to me like the full £700 should be used for the wages deduction calculation.
What figure are UC using?
Round sum allowances
If you provide a set amount of cash for employees regardless of how they spend it, this is known as a ‘round sum allowance’.
This counts as earnings, so you’ll need to:
https://www.gov.uk/expenses-and-benefits-cash-sum-payments/round-sum-allowances