On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:57:14 GMT, Mike_B
wrote:
>In message , Palindrome
> writes
>>Mike_B wrote:
>>> In message ,
>>>Palindrome writes
>>>> Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
>>>>> "Palindrome" wrote in message
>>>>>news:a6gGj.53617$ic2.48045@fe09.news.easynews.com...
>>>>>> Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
>>>>>>> Most of them I would say.
>>>>>> I suspect that few are stupid enough to do anything provably unlawful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They are simply taking full advantage of generous measures that
>>>>>>would never be allowed to anyone else - especially civil servants.
>>>>> Well as they set up these measures it means they are all on the
>>>>>fiddle,
>>>>> or at least the majority.
>>>>
>>>> IIUC, most of the "nice little earners" were introduced before the
>>>>current lot got elected.
>>>>
>>>> You probably think that I am on the fiddle too, then - one company I
>>>>do work for gives me over twice the daily expense rate of the others.
>>>>don't hand the extra back and tell them I don't need that much.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Me too I'm afraid. I claim my full mileage allowance even though my
>>>car doesn't cost me that much per mile to actually drive.
>>>
>>I was hauled in by one to explain why my claims for travel to an office
>>varied so much. I explained that, if I was already near the office, for
>>one reason or another, I didn't claim for the whole trip. I was told
>>that their system couldn't cope with that and to claim for the whole
>>trip, each time. Which then left me trying to explain to another local
>>government department why my claims varied so much.. The answer
>>suggested? Claim for the whole trip, each time, from each office..
>>
>>Which was quite possibly fraud, as each claim form had something about
>>"actual expenses".
>>
>>I decided to keep records of all the short trips and claim for a whole
>>trip when they added up to one. I'm not sure if it would have been a
>>defence..Luckily I wasn't asked to publish my expenses..
>>
>>However, I can have some sympathy for MPs who may have had to resort to
>>such tactics in order that "the system could cope".
>>
>
>I can have some sympathy for them anyway. If the rules where I work said
>I could claim £12000 to have a new kitchen fitted, of course I would
>claim it. I'd be bloody stupid not to.
Yes - but I think it is OK only if you actually had the kitchen
fitted. |