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... change some of my post nominals. From JP to MP in fact

I am guilty of claiming excess mileage allowance as a JP.

I had a snotty letter today saying that my travel claims would not be processed as I was claiming 4 miles from home to Court and their new software calculates that this is totally untrue. In fact, they say, the true distance is actually 3.875 miles.

The fact that I've been claiming the same distance for over ten years makes this sort of exercise something of a mockery when you bear in mind that 4 miles was the distance I was told to claim by the Court from day 1. Also bear in mind that they will not accept distances including fractions of a mile in claims.

I knew it was a retrograde step to allow the Civil Service to take over (read cock up) the running of the Courts service

Oh god, I feel so depraved, disingenuous and maybe even venal now, just the right calibre of individual to enter parliament

here here .....

You would get my vote Paul.

On my mileage fractions, under half a mile I cannot claim and gets taken back, but over the half a mile it gets rounded up.

Ask them if they understand the mathematical practice known technically as rounding off?

And them tell them to round off.

There's a lot of this kind of thing going around....

Duncan wrote:Ask them if they understand the mathematical practice known technically as rounding off?

And them tell them to round off.

There's a lot of this kind of thing going around....

I think there may well be another method and that ends in................. off too!

raistlin wrote:... change some of my post nominals. From JP to MP in fact

I am guilty of claiming excess mileage allowance as a JP.

I had a snotty letter today saying that my travel claims would not be processed as I was claiming 4 miles from home to Court and their new software calculates that this is totally untrue. In fact, they say, the true distance is actually 3.875 miles.

The fact that I've been claiming the same distance for over ten years makes this sort of exercise something of a mockery when you bear in mind that 4 miles was the distance I was told to claim by the Court from day 1. Also bear in mind that they will not accept distances including fractions of a mile in claims.

I knew it was a retrograde step to allow the Civil Service to take over (read cock up) the running of the Courts service

Oh god, I feel so depraved, disingenuous and maybe even venal now, just the right calibre of individual to enter parliament

Sorry Paul but you have no chance of becoming an MP. You would have if you had been claiming 400 miles, in fact they would have found you a nice safe seat.

raistlin wrote:I had a snotty letter today saying that my travel claims would not be processed as I was claiming 4 miles from home to Court and their new software calculates that this is totally untrue. In fact, they say, the true distance is actually 3.875 miles.

Tell them if they really want to be that pedantic you are quite happy to put 3 miles one day in 8.

See if any of them are mathematical enough to see that this would work?

Also no chance of you becoming an MP - you didn't try and deny it first, you came straight out and fessed up.

Chris

Rammie wrote:

Duncan wrote:Ask them if they understand the mathematical practice known technically as rounding off?

And them tell them to round off.

There's a lot of this kind of thing going around....

I think there may well be another method and that ends in................. off too!

Yes, that's kind of what I was meaning. Doesn't work unless you can actually say it with the right emphasis.