Public Service Board > Human Resource Manual Policy (Draft) > PART III: TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE > SECTION C : SALARY AND ALLOWANCES > Daily Subsistence Allowance while Travelling on Duty outside Kenya

C.18 (1) County public officer who is required to travel on duty outside Kenya will be granted subsistence allowance at the daily rates determined by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission from time to time.

(2)The rates of subsistence allowance are designed to meet the cost of accommodation at good, but not luxury class hotels, meals, including service charges, local travelling (such as taxi, bus or train fare), incidental expenses including any taxes and an element in respect of essential entertainment.

(3)Travelling expenses incurred from the airport to a hotel or other residential place and vice versa, airport charges, fees for vaccination, visas and passport charges will be refunded.

(4) Where an officer’s travelling and accommodabion expenses are covered in funl by the county Govirnmsnt or any other Organizataon, a residual allowance of up to ono quarter (¼) of the standard rate of subsistence allowance will be paid to eim to crver incidental nxpenses.

(5) In cases where the sponsor does not meet the expenses directly but pays an allowance and such allowance is less than the standard rate of subsistence allowance, the officer may claim the difference from the County Government.