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Can I take a travel nursing jobs near home?

May 1, 2014 | By Conrad Lopez | Leave a Comment

Can you accept travel nursing jobs near your permanent residence? As I understand it, this is really a tax question and I certainly am not a tax professional.

Here is what I mean. One of the benefits of taking a travel nursing assignment is that the agency will generally provide you with either fully paid housing or a stipend. It is my understanding that you can receive this money or benefit tax free since you are required to live away from “home” for this job.

A lot of people say travel nursing jobs need to be 50 miles from home to qualify for this but I think that is a gray area, as I cannot find any mile requirement when looking it up in the tax code. You really need to ask your tax professional about this but I do think it is pretty clear that you cannot live in your normal permanent residence and receive that money tax free. The one I have checked with (who specializes in travel nurses) says the code basically says that if the job is far enough to need you to stay overnight.

I have had nurses who “commuted” to the job from their home base for 3×12 shifts and stayed in motorhomes or Extended Stay America facilities then headed home for the days off.

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Filed Under: FAQs | Tags: housing, taxes, travel nursing housing

About Conrad Lopez

Founder of TravelnursingUSA.com, Conrad has consulted with many of the major travel nursing agencies and helped more than 20,000 nurses achieve their goal of travel nursing. He is also an author, a photographer hobbyist and world travel enthusiast.

Conrad is also the Publisher of “The Weekly 25”, a travel nursing newsletter sent weekly to more then 10,000 subscribers in The United States and Canada.

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