Travel Guidelines and Forms

Step 1: Review the guidelines

• Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty: T/TT Award Guidelines
• Professional Track Faculty: PTK Award Guidelines
• Graduate Student: GS Award Guidelines

and

• Submission guidelines

• Breakfast:$10.00
• Lunch:$12.00
• Dinner:$25.00
• Total (per diem) - including tax & tip: $47.00

• 57.5¢ per mile (effective 1/1/2020)
• 58¢ per mile (for reimbursements for 2019)

Step 2: Complete form(s) and submit to sllc-travel@umd.edu

• For all: SLLC Travel Approval Request Form
• For Graduate Students: Supplemental SLLC Travel Approval Request Form
• Allow six weeks pre-travel if international and/or if you want Admin Services to make reservations

Step 3: Wait for approval and then travel

• As you travel, be sure to keep original, itemized receipts, as well as boarding passes for travel by air or rail, as required by UMD Travel Services.

Step 4: Complete and submit reimbursement forms to Travel Specialist (3215G JMZ)

SLLC Travel Reimbursement Request Form

• Provide all original, itemized receipts as well as boarding passes for air or rail travel.
• Be sure to include on the Travel Reimbursement Request Form the time when you left home and the time when you returned home to make sure that you receive the proper amount of per diem. 
• To expedite the process, please organize and tape small receipts on a sheet of paper.
• Submit forms and itemized receipts within 30 days after the trip

Step 5: Sign attestation page prepared by Travel Specialist

Step 6: Wait for your money

• Employee – amount will show up in your pay check within three (3) weeks
• Graduate Student– amount will appear in your paycheck or credit your student account within three (3) weeks
• Participant (not on payroll) – check will be mailed to the home address within four (4) weeks