Since the end of September, the Arkansas Lottery has spent approximately $25,000 on mileage reimbursements for employees.
All told, the Lottery Office has reimbursed its employees more than $55,000 for driving around the state on official business since July 1 of this year.
The numbers come from the State of Arkansas’ official transparency website.
State employees receive 42 cents for every mile they travel on state business in their personal vehicles; some employees at the Arkansas Lottery average hundreds of dollars every month in reimbursement for their mileage.
That means the Arkansas Lottery has paid its employees for more than 130,000 miles of travel since July 1, 2020.
As we have written many times, the Arkansas Lottery probably could save a lot of money by using state vehicles for travel instead of paying employees to drive their personal vehicles — or by finding ways to reduce travel in general.
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