Travel & Expense

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 16^th 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.

Please temporarily refrain from creating Expense Reports using Travel Authorizations.

A budget check issue occurred with Travel Authorizations on Thursday, May 16^th which is causing budget errors when Travel Authorizations are pulled into Expense Reports.

The SMART Team is working to correct this issue and will send a follow-up blast when Travel Authorizations are able be pulled into Expense Reports again.

Due to recent system updates performed by the SMART Team, some agency users may have received payment notification emails last week related to completed, prior year Expense Reports. These emails can be disregarded. ((Cont...))

CONUS Rates: CONUS rates have not had any corrections made at the federal level since the 10/01/2023 effective date. However, due to a system error involving the 2024 leap year, corrections were made to dates on a number of locations. ((Cont...))

CONUS rates were updated Saturday, September 30, 2023 and have an effective date of October 1, 2023. ((Cont...))