{"id":2177,"date":"2021-09-30T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:28:49","slug":"hotel-costs-on-expense-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2021\/09\/30\/hotel-costs-on-expense-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Costs on Expense Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should you need to claim expenses for a hotel booking it has been recognised that the cost of hotel rooms is currently higher than before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We therefore acknowledge that the rate per night may exceed the rates quoted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/finance-staff\/docs\/payments\/EP1_Expenses_Policy.pdf\">Employee Personal Expenditure Policy<\/a> and as long as the cost is reasonable and has been approved prior to the booking being made any claims will still be processed for reimbursement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please ensure you attach confirmation of the approval for this and a justification for exceeding the limits to your claim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is only a temporary measure whilst rates are still higher than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel bookings should in the first instance still continue to be booked through the university&#8217;s travel provider Key Travel rather than claimed back on expenses unless absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you need to claim expenses for a hotel booking it has been recognised that the cost of hotel rooms is currently higher than before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2021\/09\/30\/hotel-costs-on-expense-claims\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178703,137354,137336],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}