When rail travel is necessary, Service arranged tickets (including season tickets) are to be applied for via American Express/GBT with the agreement of your Line Management
Sports Travel
You can get help with travel costs when you take part in certain Service sporting activities
Eligibility check:
What’s it for?
As a Service person, you could take part in organised sport as part of your training. You may even have the chance to represent your Ship, Unit, Regiment or Corps at official sporting events against other Service or civilian teams, or act as a certified match official. The Sports Travel allowance is designed to help with the cost of travel to and from these sporting events.
If you’re travelling to a sport event as part of unit training you’ll only be able to claim the Sports Travel allowance if your Commanding Officer decides that you need to use transport to get there.
If you’re representing your Ship, Unit, Regiment or Corps, the allowance only covers travel to events that have been officially recognised by the UK Armed Forces Sports Board.
You can’t claim back the cost of food and drink on your journey.
What do I get?
With the Sports Travel allowance, you may be given rail tickets, flight tickets (when travelling from an assignment overseas), or claim back fuel costs based on £0.25 per mile if you use your own private motor vehicle and no Service provided transport has been used.
When can’t I use this?
You can't claim this when you are travelling to take part in representative sports activities which have not been officially recognised by the UK Armed Forces Sports board.
How do I claim this
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If you are travelling by air to/from overseas you should arrange your flights through your unit HR admin staff/unit travel office or through American Express/GBT
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If you are travelling by civil air within the UK, you may claim actual expenses up to a maximum of the Motor Mileage Allowance for the journey by the most direct route, whilst for bus or other public transport, actual costs may be claimed. In order to do so, if you have a Defence Gateway account you can claim these expenses from your own personal device by going to My expenses
You can also submit your claim via JPA iexpenses as set out in the Expenses User guide which can be found here. If you dont have access to Defence Gateway or the JPA on-line system, JPA Form F016 (which can be found at at JPA forms) is to be completed and submitted to your unit HR Admin staff
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When travel by private motor vehicle is authorised, MMA may be claimed together with the appropriate rate of passenger allowance for each eligible passenger (but not spectators). If you have a Defence Gateway account you can claim MMA from your own personal device by going to My expenses. You can also submit your claim via JPA iExpenses The claim for motor mileage allowance user guide, which can be found here tells you how. If you don't have access to JPA then complete JPA Form F016 (which can be found at JPA Forms) and submit it to your Unit HR Admin along with all supporting documentation including receipts.
Need more information?
JSP 752 Sports travel
read chapter 6, section 1 of JSP 752 to find out more about Sports travel
Guide to Allowances and Expenses for Service Personnel
Read the Guide to Allowances and Expenses for Service Personnel