South Australian MPs will no longer receive a taxpayer-funded allowance for staying with their friends in Adelaide, as part of significant changes to the Country Members Accommodation Allowance.
Country MPs will no longer be able to claim money for staying with a friend while in Adelaide, as part of significant changes to the Members Accommodation Allowance.The $234-a-night Members Accommodation Allowance has been slashed to $185 for MPs with second residences in AdelaideReceipts are now needed to claim commercial accommodation costs up to $234 a night
An ABC investigation raised serious questions over its use by several MPs, which resulted in the resignations of four Liberal MPs andMPs will now be reimbursed for commercial accommodation costs up to $234 a night, with MPs now required to provide receipts "as evidence of the amount of actual expenditure for each eligible night".
It goes on to state that the accommodation costs incurred must be "a genuine arms-length commercial transaction". A second residence will not be covered under that arrangement, with the payment only covering 15 nights a year. However, it also states: "The Tribunal has no enforcement powers in relation to compliance issues at the workplace level."As the state grapples with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the tribunal has frozen all MP allowances this year.
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