In the past month, the Arkansas Lottery has reportedly reimbursed its employees for another $11,000 worth of travel, according to the Arkansas Transparency website.
State employees receive 42 cents for every mile they travel on state business in their personal vehicles.
Since the fiscal year began on July 1, 2020, the Arkansas Lottery has paid its employees $79,268 in mileage reimbursements.
That’s enough to cover nearly 189,000 miles of driving!
Some employees have received thousands of dollars for driving their personal vehicles on state business.
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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