Jpa Expenses Audit- help please (guilty till proved innocent)

[can't an SAC do it?]

I've made a claim from the med ctr before. I had to see a doctor while on holiday in France. Went to the med ctr once I was back and asked about completing my E111 form to claim back the costs. The receptionist had a quick chat with the WO and he told me to see accounts to get the Euros converted into Pounds and then complete a simple form. Voila! £60 returned via med ctr thank you!

That was all pre JPA though.....

 

[Digzster]

How did you manage to reclaim the prescription costs on JPA? There is no such 'header' under which to reclaim these costs. Receipts for prescriptions are to be taken to your Med Centre for them to refund; this negates the requirement to prove you had appointments or prescriptions.The easiest - and correct - course of action is to speak to the auditor, cancel the claim and resubmit as a claim for travel only, then take your receipts to the Med Centre.In this instance, unfortunately, the system was not wrong, but you were!

Funny this, I had the same thing this week. Under Medical/Dental section there is nothing. Before I threw the PC out of the window a quick call to a friendly (and knowledgeable) clerk told me to look under "Miscellaneous" and voila! Claims for perscriptions are found.

You only have to get Medcen to approve the payment first before entering it onto JPA.

 

[iainrm]

not a new problem

not a new problem

Power crazy clerks is not a new problem just poor management in their sections.
2 examples from many years ago.

I'm just handed over all the tech inventories for 29 in morning and I'm in supply and there is a FO getting a very hard time from some SAC about missing cold weather socks. I'd worked the system to the point I had inventory stock locked away and the stuff in use written off. They were never going to reissue sock!! but it was a great game giving the "zob" a hard time.

While I was in Stanley (in 82) the kids boarding school fees were due and another junior clerk in accounts was giving my wife a hard time about my having to sign all the paperwork first she got "****ed" and walked into OC accounts office. Not a problem it will be in your account this week, any other problem? need a loan, coffee etc...
He was a wise guy because I know my WC or or the groupie would have ripped him a new one if I had gone up that ladder. They were the pair who were our 1/2 in the first gulf war.

But neither should ever have happened!!

 

[unruly1986]

So are some stations using PSF SACs as the audit clerks then? At one of my previous units, they had a couple of civvie auditors who did all the JPA stuff. Made me wonder, if they were on say, £20k a year each, they would have to `reclaim` £40k a year (Around £120 a day) in `false` claims to make it even break even...

 

[Realist78]

So are some stations using PSF SACs as the audit clerks then? At one of my previous units, they had a couple of civvie auditors who did all the JPA stuff. Made me wonder, if they were on say, £20k a year each, they would have to `reclaim` £40k a year (Around £120 a day) in `false` claims to make it even break even...

That, in a nutshell, highlights how ridiculous the current system is!

 

[busby1971]

Think about the deterrent value, they may only recover the odd small claim, like the£6 recovered after I has started my terminal leave which I never found out about until too late. But if there were no auditors then there would be a lot more claims submitted on three off chance.

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