Daily allowance reimbursement in a secondment, answer to Margarita Akterskaia

In my case, daily allowance has not been included in my reimbursement procedure of the secondment. Only two days (traveling days) were reimbursed.

In principle in the case of a business trip the daily allowance can be reimbursed as a Dienstreise. Then it depends on the duration of the trip. However, in the case of the secondment daily allowance should be covered by the Living allowance money of the MSCA IF, that it is included in your salary. Still it is an ambiguous issue and the EU faq could be more clear.

In my opinion,

- living allowance should cover the secondment living expenses

- networking & training costs the travel and the housing.

The reason is that you could be paying two houses but you only live in one place :).

In conclusion, you can try to ask for the daily allowance but in my opinion those costs are included in your salary.