TDY mileage rate increase?

[stlpilot]

I just received payment for a travel voucher for which the first leg of travel occurred prior to 1 Aug and the second leg occurred after 1 Aug. The first leg was paid at .505 cents per mile and the return home was .580 cents per mile. This was a nice payout cause I drove 1000 miles one way. So my question is this, did they start paying more as of 1 Aug or sometime close to that? When I asked the travel pay folks (last month and during a separate incident) they said the rate was .505 for TDY's. So did they screw up and I got lucky, or did I miss the announcement of the increase? I knew the federal mileage rate went up this year but when I directly asked about it effecting TDY mileage the travel office told me that did not effect them.

Just looking for some info to see what others have been paid.

Thanks

 

[rod farva]

Yeah, I got an email that the rate was going up. Can you explain this one to me? I did a TDY this month, and drove from my house to the base, flew the trip, and drove home. I was paid for 65 miles coming up and only 50 going home. I guess finance figured my car had wings to cut the corner. Standard AF BS.

 

[dtfl]

Yeah, I got an email that the rate was going up. Can you explain this one to me? I did a TDY this month, and drove from my house to the base, flew the trip, and drove home. I was paid for 65 miles coming up and only 50 going home. I guess finance figured my car had wings to cut the corner. Standard AF BS.

Take the voucher back, speak with the NCOIC and file a supplemental, assuming they won't correct it on spot. I hate travel pay. I will spend an hour getting $1.85 back just to spite them. They didn't pay a long distance call so I jumped through all of their hoops, and made sure I pointed out at every stop along the way that the man-hours they will expend in paying my $2.00 phone call will far outweight the actual cost of the call. Don't think they got it..but I enjoyed it.
Latest - at Keesler AFB, the home of the Travel Pay Tech School.....VARIATIONS AUTHORIZED is no longer "authorized".
Tail wagging the dog...........f&cking shoeclerks.
One C21 crew related a story..they hauled the 2AF CC a while back (could be months or a couple years..forgot) and they had to delay the TO for some reason. When they finally delivered the General..he made the comment that the AF would be great if it weren't for all the pilots.
F&cking Comm/Personnel/Services Shoeclerk General.

 

[erj-145mech]

I just received payment for a travel voucher for which the first leg of travel occurred prior to 1 Aug and the second leg occurred after 1 Aug. The first leg was paid at .505 cents per mile and the return home was .580 cents per mile. This was a nice payout cause I drove 1000 miles one way. So my question is this, did they start paying more as of 1 Aug or sometime close to that? When I asked the travel pay folks (last month and during a separate incident) they said the rate was .505 for TDY's. So did they screw up and I got lucky, or did I miss the announcement of the increase? I knew the federal mileage rate went up this year but when I directly asked about it effecting TDY mileage the travel office told me that did not effect them.

Just looking for some info to see what others have been paid.

Thanks

$.505 prior to 1 AUG and $.585 after 1 AUG, its on the JTR web site.

 

[tankerswede]

Take the voucher back, speak with the NCOIC and file a supplemental, assuming they won't correct it on spot. I hate travel pay. I will spend an hour getting $1.85 back just to spite them. They didn't pay a long distance call so I jumped through all of their hoops, and made sure I pointed out at every stop along the way that the man-hours they will expend in paying my $2.00 phone call will far outweight the actual cost of the call. Don't think they got it..but I enjoyed it.

I did the same thing once, accomplishing a full staff summary package so the wing commander could approve the payment of the $12/night over the max lodging rate we were charged - at the hotel that lodging sent us to. What a waste.

When they finally delivered the General..he made the comment that the AF would be great if it weren't for all the pilots.
F&cking Comm/Personnel/Services Shoeclerk General.

I used to joke that it was the XXth Finance/Medical/Support Wing and that the flying group was just a tenant unit. It ceased to be funny when it became reality.

 

[dtfl]

I did the same thing once, accomplishing a full staff summary package so the wing commander could approve the payment of the $12/night over the max lodging rate we were charged - at the hotel that lodging sent us to. What a waste.



I used to joke that it was the XXth Finance/Medical/Support Wing and that the flying group was just a tenant unit. It ceased to be funny when it became reality.

The latest in the saga of Travel Pay..the Keesler OIC there made some snide remark regarding our want of the Variations Authorized saying something along the lines of "You flyers just take your airplanes and fly wherever you want...."
Our DO sat down with the Civilian and she literally could NOT understand how we took off on missions and had variations, in the tac airlift world. "You mean..you don't have ITINERARIES!?!?" Shoeclerks used to dealing with tech school students who all have to sh&t the same way........

What's that smell?? Smells like IG complaint in here...