Are you claiming the kilometres you drive?

Don't Lose A Cent · NannyTank

If you drive your own car for the family, there's a good chance you're quietly subsidising them — and you might not even realise by how much.

The money hiding in plain sight

School runs. Sports practice. The forgotten lunchbox. The "quick" trip to the shops. Individually each drive feels like nothing. Added up across a month, those kilometres are real fuel, real wear on your car, and real money out of your pocket.

When you use your own vehicle for work, those kilometres should be reimbursed — usually at a per-kilometre rate you agree with your family (or your country's standard reimbursement rate). It's not a bonus. It's getting back what the job cost you.

Why au pairs lose this money

Same reason they lose overtime: nobody's counting. You're not going to remember 40 separate little trips at month-end, so you guess low, or skip it entirely because raising it feels petty. Multiply that by twelve months and it's a meaningful amount you simply gave away.

How to actually claim it

1. Agree a km rate up front — put it in your contract.
2. Log each trip as you do it — a quick note of where and how far.
3. Total it monthly and include it in what you send the family.

The trick is logging in the moment. A trip you didn't record is a trip you can't claim.

Where NannyTank fits

NannyTank was built around exactly this. Tap to log a trip — description and distance — and it keeps a running total, then multiplies by your rate to produce a clean fuel claim that goes out with your monthly hours. You stop guessing, and you stop leaving money on the table.

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