Good Morning Listers --

My institution does not presently provide health insurance for Graduate
Research Assistants or Graduate Teaching Assistants. There is a move toward
this and I was asked if charging health insurance, as a fringe benefit, to
contracts or grants would be allowed. (The charge would be in proportion to
the GRA's stipend charge to any individual contract/grant account.) As
health insurance is a  fringe benefit and fringe benefits are an allowable
charge, I don't see a problem. I do think that the Graduate Teaching
Assistants, who are charged to State funds (departmental accounts) would
also have to receive health insurance, charged to the departmental accounts.
This would insure that we are treating individuals in a similar position in
a consistent manner.

Please let me know if you know of a reason that a health insurance fringe
benefit for a Graduate Research Assistant would be prohibited. Thank you.

Val Seaquist
Office of Research Administration
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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