NHS Business Miles

throughtheblue

turnitround said:

According to your other thread you car share with your partner to get to work?

See my reply on the other thread. We car share two days per week when both working at ours bases, which are very close to each other. One day per week, I am obliged to cover a clinic at a location that's not my base, on these days, we don't car share and I actually have to coordinate with my manager suitable days I can cover in advance.

throughtheblue

"3.15 For business journeys that commence or end at the employee’s home, mileage will not be reimbursed for the portion of the journey that is part of the employee’s normal commute. Where an employee travels from/to home to a location that is not base, and the journey is not part of the normal commute, the employee can claim the lesser of the home to place visited mileage and the base to place visited mileage"

This is the section I'm confused about in terms of what I can claim. My manager seems to think it's base to temp base mileage, but the online system uses a triangulation calculation. 

tizerbelle

throughtheblue said:

"3.15 For business journeys that commence or end at the employee’s home, mileage will not be reimbursed for the portion of the journey that is part of the employee’s normal commute. Where an employee travels from/to home to a location that is not base, and the journey is not part of the normal commute, the employee can claim the lesser of the home to place visited mileage and the base to place visited mileage"

This is the section I'm confused about in terms of what I can claim. My manager seems to think it's base to temp base mileage, but the online system uses a triangulation calculation. 

Home to Temp = 60 miles return
Base to Temp = 32 miles return

You claim 32 miles as it is the lesser. 

But if they are still using a triangulation calculation, you need to check your trusts current mileage policy to see how that works.  Perhaps in the online system, you need to enter all the different mileages and the system then picks the least?

throughtheblue

tizerbelle said:

throughtheblue said:

"3.15 For business journeys that commence or end at the employee’s home, mileage will not be reimbursed for the portion of the journey that is part of the employee’s normal commute. Where an employee travels from/to home to a location that is not base, and the journey is not part of the normal commute, the employee can claim the lesser of the home to place visited mileage and the base to place visited mileage"

This is the section I'm confused about in terms of what I can claim. My manager seems to think it's base to temp base mileage, but the online system uses a triangulation calculation. 

Home to Temp = 60 miles return
Base to Temp = 32 miles return

You claim 32 miles as it is the lesser. 

But if they are still using a triangulation calculation, you need to check your trusts current mileage policy to see how that works.  Perhaps in the online system, you need to enter all the different mileages and the system then picks the least?

I'm waiting on a reply from payroll, so we'll see. If it was as easy as putting in and claiming the 32 miles, I'd choose to do that, as it's also my manager's understanding.

It has a section where you can click, 'from home' and/or 'to home'. If I click both, I end up with less business miles, if I click both, I get less business miles. Strange and probably a lesson for the Trust in making things self-explanatory.