CONUS Rates:
CONUS rates were updated Monday March 31, 2025 and have an effective date of April 1, 2025. Please note: No changes were made to the Lodging or Meals and Incidental Expenses rates in Kansas.
CONUS rates in SMART are updated October 1 to coincide with the adoption of new rates by the federal government. Quarterly loads will also be done January 1, April 1, and July 1 to account for corrections or updates to the CONUS and applicable OCONUS rates.
CONUS Rates:
CONUS rates were reviewed and as of 12PM central time on December 31, 2024, no new information that effected State of Kansas employees had been provided by the Federal Department of Defense. Therefore, no new rate information was uploaded for effective date January 1, 2025. ((Cont...))
An issue during the data load for the 10/01/2024 CONUS rates caused the Standard CONUS Rate options in the system to not update to the 10/01/2024 rates. This was corrected at approximately 10:45AM this morning. Any Travel Authorizations or Expense Reports ((Cont...))
CONUS rates were updated Monday September 30, 2024 and have an effective date of October 1, 2024. ((Cont...))
A fix has been applied to resolve the underlying issue causing certain Expense Reports associated to Travel Authorizations to not issue payment for all authorized expenditures. ((cont...))
Users were made aware of a bug in the latest upgrade when trying to assign new approvers to an approval pool in the Expense module. A workaround has been identified to allow users to utilize this functionality. ((Cont...))
The SMART Team is aware of an issue involving certain Expense Reports not issuing payment for all authorized expenditures. ((Cont...))
A formula error was discovered in the MIE Worksheet that was provided to agencies last week. ((Cont...))
Due to recent changes from the SMART Upgrade, the Expense module no longer automatically calculates the travel quarters when the Meals & Incidental Expenses (MIE) expense type is used. To assist agencies, a worksheet is being provided that calculates MIE based on travel times. ((Cont...))
The budget checking issue from May 16th has been resolved and agencies may resume pulling Travel Authorizations into Expense Reports. The SMART Team will continue to monitor the system as agencies process expenses.
