Multiple Expense Reports

[robb5561]

I am currently on a 3 month assignment and is eligible for ME&I and Lodging GSA per diems. Out company policy doesn't not allow manual per diem inputs and only through Travel Allowance. I have to expense weekly, and trying to find out what is the best practice to use apply the per diem while complying with company policy. 

• I have tried to travel expense the whole trip and exclude all days except the days I'm trying to expense and that was rejected. 
• I have also tried to create individual travel itineraries for the specific days I'm trying to claim but run into the 75% rule on the first and last day  when that isn't complete. 

[KevinD]

@robb5561 if you are on a three month assignment, I take it it is a full three months without traveling home, correct? And so I'm clear, they make you submit expense reports each week? 

If that is the case, then I suggest you speak to someone internally about this. If you are on a three month assignment without being able to travel home, then you are getting short changed a bit having to submit each week as the system would then think you are traveling each week and reducing the total for those travel days. The ideal thing would be to create a travel itinerary for your entire trip so you get the accurate amounts and only have one travel day on the beginning and end of your trip. 

Maybe you can ask if you can make one expense report that is just the travel allowance that way you can enter your entire itinerary. Then each week create an expense report for all other business expenses for that week. That seems fair to me and would be a bit less convoluted than trying to split out the travel itinerary on a week-by-week basis.