Interesting, when I was in the AF, we were rarely, if ever paid our per diem up front. You could get an advance on your “expected” per diem, up to 80% iirc. Never lodging. You had to provide receipts for lodging, rental car, rental car fuel and anything over $75 that was an approved expense.
Upon your return, you then had to file a travel voucher that showed all of your required expenses, minus meals. Your final per diem amount was then calculated against that voucher. If you had taken an advance and were under, you got the difference, if not, you paid the gov’t back.
Many chose not to take the advance, lower ranks usually did because they didn’t normally have that kind of money.
Why is it so hard for these fools who enacted those rules I just mentioned to follow the same ones?
I know, because they’re “special”.
That’s effed up. According to GSA rules you either go actuals or per diem. I think you got ripped off.