Working from home allowance

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Hi there

Just trying to figure out what the norm is for working from home.
I potentially have the opportunity to take on a new role working remotely from home.

I'll have to travel on a regular basis within my region and for this I will be reimbursed.

However, part of the package is a work from home allowance and a car user allowance.
The work from home allowance is different to broadband, phoneline and mobile which is paid for. So I'm assuming it means cost of having the heating on, electricity etc.
They have been vague on what payments will be received and I just wondered if home workers would mind sharing with me what working from home allowance and car user allowance they get?

Just trying to figure out if it's actually worth my time financially.
I know companies differ but just a ballpark idea is what I need really.
Thank you

I get nothing if that helps lol

generally nothing

Same here - I'm government but on a contract. They treat it as a perk.

I don’t know anyone who gets reimbursed or claims for working from home.

If you don’t like, go into the office. You do realise how lucky you are to be allowed to work from home?

Yes I do realise how lucky I would be if I took the job after working full time shift work for over a decade

However, my basic wage would be less and financially it needs to be viable.
Even if the stress and long, ridiculous hours, being shouted at, spat at etc would be diminished.
I would just like to cover all bases.

I get £18 a month which covers my phone/broadband, heating and so on. I'm permanently homebased, and this is the HMRC allowance

Nothing here either. I only do one day every three weeks at home and I see it as a perk of the job so wouldn't expect anything extra tbh.

I work at home roughly 70% of time, I wouldn’t expect to get reimbursed for electricity. I used to get broadband in past jobs but the expectation now is that you have that anyway. Don’t get phone allowance as have work mobile to use. I can put through printer ink, paper etc but to be honest I don’t.

The way I look at it is I save a lot of money and time so I feel pretty lucky to have the set up I do.

Only occasional home working personally but my firm employs someone to work from home and I have a few friends who work from home and none of them receives any allowance (other than covering calls / contribution towards fast b/b).

The job advertisement certainly states home work allowance so there's something.
Just hoping the pay cut wouldn't be so bad with allowances.

Do those of you who have replied have to travel to sites along with working from home as they mention car allowance too?
I get the impression a fair amount of travelling is needed.

I've worked from home before and I didn't get reimbursement for it. This was a 6 month stretch of 100% working from home. Our bills didn't really go up, even with the computer on all day. And I only heated the room I was in, using an oil heater. (This was during the winter months too)

Factor in the money you'll save on commuting (presumably all your travel costs when travelling for work will be covered).

I work from home and I get £40 a month. I work for a public sector organisation. My heating and electricity bills have gone up quite a bit since I started home working so I feel OK about getting this otherwise I feel I would be out of pocket!

Yes, I get car allowance. Its added to salary before tax. We then get 16p a mile, which barely covers fuel these days, but is supposed to cover tyres, screen wash etc as well. At my company the car allowance varies between those who are essential car users (service engineers for example) and those for whom it is decided by their grade

Nowt.

The mileage seems pretty good too. It would be 45p a mile for the first 10. Then 16 I think.
Oh okay so a car allowance is usually already factored into the salary?

At the moment right smack bang in the middle of my 4th long day in a row. I'm willing to take the hit with salary tbh and working from home sounds amazing.
It'll be highly pressured but at different type.

This too is for a public organisation.

I don’t get car allowance as I get 45p per mile.

In the past I’ve either been able to have a car allowance or have the higher mileage rate-depends on amount of expected travel which is best.

Dh gets £20 broadband/phone allowance and can also claim for office equipment eg chair, desk etc as needed

My dog used to work from home. The firm installed a separate phone line for the internet and gave him 30% of power and lighting costs.

He left that job😡

My dog never worked from home.......,😂dh did.

I get the £18 per month as well, as a home working allowance. That covers everything, broadband, phone etc. I used to get a mobile phone and my home broadband paid for but they stopped doing that a couple of years ago.
All travel costs are reimbursed, as my home is my main place of work contractually.

I get £500 a month car allowance and mileage paid similar to you. All Internet costs and phone bills paid. But because I am employed i don't think I can came home bill costs. Honestly I wouldn't quibble. Working from home saves me best part of £800 a month commuting costs to London and priceless freedom to flexi work.

Nothing here either. I've had to connect to my work phone for tethering a few times as I've been short and can do without Wi-Fi at home for a few days.

OP, If you pay tax, regarding mileage, if you use your own vehicle, if you are paid less than 45p a mile, you can claim back the difference on a tax return each year. So say you get paid 1000 miles at 16p, you would receive £160, however the government would allow £450, so the difference between the two is £290. You could then get back the tax paid on the difference, so £58 in that example.

Your employer can pay you £18 a month tax free allowance for working at home.

If you get a car allowance, you will be taxed on it as a benefit

I claim an increae in tax allowance from hmrc for working from home. I think it is £4 per week which gives me 80p tax relief!