Travel Card Use and Benefits

Find out about the UCSD Travel Card for employees traveling and entertaining for official UCSD business.

The UCSD Travel Card is to pay for:

• Official UCSD business travel services for the cardholder only
• Entertainment expenses when the cardholder is acting as the host of official University-sponsored business entertainment

  Note: The card is not for personal use.

Before you use the card, review card management guidelines including timely payment, and:

• For travel: Ensure that your travel has been preauthorized.
• For entertainment: Review the guidelines for allowable official entertainment.

See applying for a UCSD Travel Card.

Benefits:

• Eliminates out-of-pocket expenses for airfare: When airfare is charged, it is automatically removed from your account and billed to UCSD Travel. This feature is called strip billing.

  Note: Before charging airfare, you must have a travel event number following preauthorization requirements.

• Convenient cash advances: Cash advances can be obtained from ATMs worldwide.
• Quick and easy account reconciliation: UCSD Travel can make a direct payment to your account. When you use MyTravel and include an amount to pay the Travel Card, payment is issued the next business day, and is posted to your account within three business days. You can also request payment to your card account if you need to use a paper Travel Expense Voucher (TEV). Use the card's online statements feature to reconcile your account.
• Accident insurance: You receive $500,000 travel accident insurance coverage when you purchase air or rail tickets with the UCSD Travel Card.
• Lost baggage coverage: You are eligible to receive up to $1,250 in lost baggage coverage for domestic and international travel when you purchase air or rail tickets with the UCSD Travel Card. This coverage is secondary to carrier indemnity coverage.

Prompt payment and late fees: Card charges are due at 30 days.

• As a cardholder, you are responsible for prompt payment, and any late fee assessed on past due amount.
• When cardholders pay late, it affects the entire UCSD Travel Card program.
• If you are unable to pay timely, due to unavoidable circumstances, payment made between 30 and 45 days is penalty-free only when there is no previous balance due.

  Note: You can claim late fees as a miscellaneous expense if the fees are due to campus departmental error. Be sure to check the fund source, and ask your campus department to verify that the expense is allowable.

Notice: UCSD travel policy, as published in Blink, is decisive. It has been adapted to UCSD's organization, delegation of authority, terminology, chart of accounts, and processing applications. The source for UCSD travel policy is UC Travel Policy and Regulations.

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