What is an overnight meal?
When you are traveling in approved overnight status, your lodging receipt serves a double purpose. It serves as your lodging accommodation receipt, and also entitles you to claim the daily breakfast and dinner maximum amounts without any additional meal receipts. Overnight meals begin with dinner on the first night of your approved overnight stay and end with breakfast on the day you sign out of your overnight accommodations. Meal rates vary by county, and are available in the Voucher Packet . Be sure to use the correct meal rate for the county where the training was held. Incidental expenses such as tips are already included in the per diem allowances for meals, and therefore are not reimbursed separately. There is no reimbursement for lunch.
Related Questions
- How do we determine overnight and meal costs for a mixed group (example: a team of twenty 5th graders, a high school student advisor, and three adult chaperones?
- For taxable meal reimbursements without an overnight stay or substantial rest period, which taxes should be withheld from the reimbursement amount?
- What is an overnight meal?
