What type of receipts must be submitted with the travel reimbursement request?
Receipts must be attached to ER/MP for all expenses $75 or over and all receipts regardless of costs for airfare, lodging,rail, car rental, laundry, and meals paid on the behalf for others are required.
* Ensure you check with your department/medical center administrators on which receipts they require.
How do I find per diem rates (meals and lodging) if location is not listed?
Use the County Search link to identify if the city is in a high-cost county for domestic locations. Learn more.
Select Other when the location is not listed for Foreign and Non-Contiguous areas. Learn more.
How do I claim airfare reimbursment when a personal airfare portion is included in the UW airfare expense?
After submitting an expense report, a questionnaire will appear to fill out regarding personal time. Under "Did you take any personal days or trips while traveling for business?", Select "Yes". In the box below, please provide dates, times, and location of personal travel. Airfare costs for destination other than the UW business location is not reimbursable and must be deducted from the total airfare cost. Learn more about responsibilities during personal time.
What is a Living Allowance?
Living Allowance: A department may issue a Living Allowance to defray costs that a non-UW Foreign National may incur while in Seattle for UW Business. Living Allowances will be submitted through the Miscellaneous Payment module.
Restrictions:
•limited to the GSA meal per diem rate for actual dates of stay in Seattle
•payment will not be released until all required foreign national documentation is attached to the expense report
How do I request a Travel (Cash) Advance?
A Travel/Cash Advance (previously Per Diem Advances) are requested through the Spend Authorization task and Expense Report module. Reconciliation of a Travel/Cash Advance is completed through the Expense Report module. Learn more.
Who receives email notifications?
The initiator and individuals on the approval flow (Shared Environment Expense Specialist, Funding Manager) receive email notifications indicating the ER/MP status unless each changes their own email notification preferences.
What user Security Roles must be assigned prior to using Workday?
All UW employee are able to create Expense Reports for themselves. For creating ERs on behalf of others, the Expense Data Entry Specialist Security Role must be assigned to the user.
What are the system requirements?
We recommend using Google Chrome when processing an Expense Report (ER) in Workday as it has reported the least amount of issues.
Alternative web browsers do work but we have come across some minor bugs in them. Mozilla Firefox we have come across the most issues with over the years.
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