Travel Voucher Question?

You'll need to submit both of the SNAs to verify the fact that neither quarters or chow were available. Additionally, though, you need to turn in a copy of the hotel receipts (or wherever you stayed at) to show what you paid for "rent." DFAS will only cover the daily rate of the hotel so hopefully it's not over your allowable per diem. So if your per diem for quarters is $80 a day, and you stayed somewhere that cost $100 a day, you're coming out of pocket $20 for each day you stayed. Or if you only paid $60 a day, they will only cover the $60. Also, your hotel receipts will need to be itemized to show the daily charges plus the sales tax for your room. Again, DFAS is only going to pay for the room rate and not for any calls, room service, or internet usage that you may have charged to the room. That's going to come out of your pocket.

As for chow, you're going to get the meal per diem rate authorized for the location that you went. So if you're authorized $40 a day, you'll get that for each day you were TDY. Again, if you paid more than $40 a day on average for food, you're coming out of pocket. Now, on the other side, if you paid less...let's say you lived off of ramen, vienna sausages and water and only spent $10 a day on average, well you will be pocketing $30 for each day.

Finally, make sure you turn in copies of everything and keep the originals. If anything, you'll be using DTS and scanning in your documents anyways.

the non availability statement is used when there are no quarters available and used to show that you did pay out of your pocket. do not get rid of this item. hold onto it until your TDY is complete. Yes, file it with the travel voucher so you can get reimbursed. the billeting office at your TDY location will put the stamp of approval on your travel voucher meaning that they will need to indicate on the voucher billeting etc. not available.