IPSA is the name of the body responsible for MPs expenses payments
On the first page of their website they state
"Our aim is to assure the public that MPs’ use of taxpayers’ money is well regulated "
This has resulted in MPs not having to provide receipts for up to £26,000 of expenses.
This additional 10T is accompanied with the statement "we are relaxing the rules regarding proof of the expense"!!! And relaxing the need to claim within 90 days of the spend.
How do you relax a "no evidence required" rule?????
Justifications so far have included costs of extra phone calls......so they're not clever enough to buy an unlimited calls package then....and extra staff...presumably to handle the surge of complaints about the payment....... And extra heating and lighting. So the poor public on 80% of their income who also will have increased heating and lighting?
GRRRRR
Very poor public relations when so many of the public are caught unable to actually get hold of the funds promised to help them. I've been hearing some awful Universal Credit stories on money box live and also the self employed are expected to survive until July before recieving any help.....
Not good, I wonder what Boris would say.......
Perhaps he'd do what Cameron did when IPSA decided to raise MPs salaries by 10% after the expenses scandal. He said publicly that IPSA had made completely the wrong decision and should sort itself out quickly. Then he publicly supported the MPs taking the rise (when all other public servants had pay frozen) saying they should be paid the going rate! Nice politics David.
