This is a running list of known issues and procedural highlights for the past six months.

Also, be sure to visit our branch news page for travel-related news updates.

20 November:

• Requesting a PCS Travel Advance via Proxy Guide updated.

28 August:

• FY2020 Standard CONUS Per Diem Rate posted.
• FY2020 CONUS Per Diem Rates Posted.
• TDY Supplemental Settlement User Guide updated.
• PCS Supplemental Settlement User Guide added.

26 July:

• Adding TLE for M&IE Only (No Lodging Cost) to a PCS Claim User Guide added.

1 May:

• The April issue of the Pay and Personnel Center Travel eNewsletter/Frequently Asked Questions is now available.

  This issue includes the following items:

  • We Pay What We Can
    BLUF: We will pay everything that we legally can and make sure it will pass audit
  • Decedent Affairs Officer (DAO) Communications with Pay and Personnel Center (PPC) Travel (TVL) Branch Chief
    BLUF: Call me! I will drop everything to assist you and the Casualty Assistance Calls Officer (CACO)
  • CG7421-A Form and Requirements
    BLUF: Memo is no longer required, just proof of Approving Official (AO) course completion
  • Tips for Travel Claim Processing
    BLUF: Some frequent errors resulting in kickbacks
  • Official Distance
    BLUF: Use T-Pax, don't bother with Defense Table of Official Distance (DTOD)
  • Supplemental
    BLUF: Tell us why, help us help you
  • Travel Order Number (TONO) to TONO Per Diem and Lodging
    BLUF: How to input to ensure you get all your money
  • Rental Vehicle Reimbursement Information
    BLUF: (AO)'s need to educate travelers and not approve unauthorized charges
  • Rental Vehicles and Government Administrative Rate Supplemental (GARS)
    BLUF: Rental Vehicles is the big one; don't set your people up for Falor, we mean failure
  • Privately Owned Vehicles (POV) More Advantageous
    BLUF: Be sure your traveler qualifies
  • Various Units on Orders
    BLUF: T-Pax (AO) must be from the same unit as orders (AO)
  • Travel Lodging Expense (TLE)
    BLUF: Clarification on policy. Joint Travel Regulations (JTR) takes precedence
  • Education and Training Quota Management Command (ETQC) Orders and AO's Signing Unauthorized Amendments
    BLUF: ALCOAST 343/18 tells you what you can and what you need approval for
  • Authorizing Official Requirements
    BLUF: Memo? What memo? And a test out option
  • Manual Claim Submissions
    BLUF: Guidelines that will help everyone
  • Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Advances/PCS Signature Proxy
    BLUF: More tools, less "It's not my job"
  • Post Audit Process
    BLUF: If we e-mail you, we need something
  • Shout Out!
    BLUF: Amazing work by YN2 Amato from Base Boston

  Download link: https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Portals/10/CG-1/PPC/TRAVEL/PPCTraveleNewsletterApr19.pdf.

29 April:

• PCS Travel Claim Member with Dependent(s) User Guide updated.
• PCS Travel Claim Member Only User Guide updated.

23 April:

• Reimbursable Expenses in TPAX user guide updated. It is posted under "Basic Web TPAX Information for All Users" listing.  This guide provides a list of all available Expense Description choices in TPAX along with a brief explanation of each choice.

8 April:

• Adding TLE to a PCS Claim Traveler User Guide updated.

26 December:

• PCS Mileage (MALT) and TDY Mileage Rates

Effective 1 January 2019, the MALT (monetary allowance in lieu of transportation) rate per authorized POC (privately owned conveyance) is $0.20 (twenty cents) per mile. This rate is effective for all PCS travel that commences on or after 1 January 2019 (i.e., the initial travel is started).

TDY mileage rates changed on 01 January 2019. The new TDY rates are:

Current and previous PCS & TDY mileage rates are posted at https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/otherratesMile.cfm.

18 December: What's new in Web TPAX 7.1

10 December: Correct Order Dates in TPAX User Guide added.

17 October: Updated PPC's Travel Evacuation Order Guidance 2018 (PDF)