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This calculator assists travel concession authorities to calculate reimbursement to bus operators for carrying concessionary passholders under the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS).
To calculate reimbursement for the tax year 20262025 to 2027,2026, use the 20262025 to 20272026 calculator with the:
Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2026 to 2027 added.
5 January 2024
Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2024 to 2025 added.
23 May 2023
Concessionary travel reimbursement calculator 2023 to 2024 updated to correct duplicated inflation data.
2 December 2022
Added new reimbursement calculator for 2023-2024
29 March 2022
Concessionary travel reimbursement calculator 2022 to 2023 updated with the latest GDP deflator data.
27 January 2022
The VLOOKUP formulas in tab ‘RF Workings’, used to calculate the average fare in 2005 to 2006 prices, have been updated to include the latest CPI index year.
2 December 2021
CPI/GDP deflator and Microsoft Excel macros updated in the calculator.
22 November 2021
Published bus travel reimbursement calculator 2022 to 2023.
27 November 2020
Published bus travel reimbursement calculator 2021 to 2022.
10 January 2019
Error correction to 2019 to 2020 software: updated for discovered mistakes in the reimbursement factor workings calculations.
28 December 2018
Error correction: software updated for discovered mistakes in the average fare workings calculations.
28 November 2018
Error correction: software updated for discovered mistakes in the additional costs and marginal capacity cost calculations.
26 November 2018
Calculator software updated for claim use between 2019 to 2020.
28 September 2017
2018 to 2019 calculator published.
1 November 2016
Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2017 to 2018.
2 October 2015
Calculator for 2016 to 2017 published.
20 November 2014
The change in fares between 2005 to 2006 and 2010 to 2011 calculated on the basis of the National Bus Fare Index in the calculator has been revised to take account of changes made by the department to the way that the index is calculated in 2011.
13 November 2014
2015 to 2016 calculator added, featuring updates to reflect up-to-date information on consumer price index and gross domestic product deflators.