All claims for mileage must be completed by the 16th of the month.
Travel between locations without a SU need to be submitted as a journey separately.
Mileage and travel time.
A support worker’s normal commute to Ryde House Site is ordinary commuter mileage — it is not paid and cannot be claimed.
Mileage without a service user can only be claimed from Ryde House Site to your first call.
Journeys where you don’t need to come onsite
If you are working at the weekend or do not need to come to the Ryde House Site before the start of your shift, you do not get paid for your journey time to your first call.
However, you can claim mileage if the call is further away from your house than the Ryde House Site (above ordinary commuter mileage). To work this out you need to calculate the following:
Use Google Maps to work out the shortest route to your destination.
Then:
(Distance from your house to first call address) – (Distance from your house to Ryde House) = mileage claim.
If the call is closer to your home than Ryde House then you will not be able to claim for the journey.
An example would be:
I am living in Ventnor and my first call is in Cowes.
15.5 miles (distance from my house to Cowes) – 10.9 miles (distance from my house to Ryde House) = 4.6 miles
I can claim for 4.6 miles.
You can claim mileage for journeys during a call, up to a maximum of 30 miles per call, per day, unless approved by the Outreach Manager or Co-ordinator. Service users fund their own mileage, so limits must be respected.
If you have multiple calls in a day, mileage between calls can be claimed. At the end of your last call, you can only claim for your journey home if it is longer than your normal commute from Ryde House Site (using the same calculation as above).