Another solution would be to negotiate with your health insurance carrier
that recipients of T-32 awards will be treated as employees.  If that is
possible, then you can give them employee-only coverage (they personally
pay any difference to get family coverage, if appropriate) and charge the
institutional share of that to the T-32 grant account.  Obviously this
depends on what you can negotiate with the insurance carrier.

Chuck

At 11:41 AM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
>Jean,
>
>Regarding your second question: I used to handle the administration of a
>T32 award for a small division. Our post-doc's would obtain health
>insurance on their own and make the payments. When they presented proof of
>payment, I would have a check cut from the T32 account to reimburse them
>for their expense.
>
>There may be more than one mechanism for handling this; but if I remember
>correctly, that is how we handled it.
>
>Hope that helps!
>
>Alexia Lewis
>Sr. Grants Specialist
>University of Florida
>Office of Engineering Research
>343 Weil Hall, Box 116550
>Gainesville, FL 32611
>Phone: 352-392-9448 ext. 4
>Fax: 352-846-1371
>http://www.eng.ufl.edu/home/oer/
>
>
>At 11:07 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>Dear all,
>>         We believe we are about to receive a Post-Doctoral Trainee award
>>(T32)
>>from NICHD.  Being a small Research Center at a small undergraduate
>>institution, we also believe that there are no other post-doctoral
>>trainees here, though I am still checking with other departments to make
>>sure.  We do have a number of individuals here who are in the
>>post-doctoral phase of their careers, but all of those folks are employees
>>doing work on existing projects rather than trainees doing their own
>>independent research.
>>         My questions are on the provision of health insurance to the
>>Post-Doctoral Trainees under the award.  NICHD has asked us for a letter
>>stating our policy on health insurance for individuals in a training
>>status.
>>
>>1) Will a statement that we will make health insurance available to all
>>post-doc trainees regardless of source of funding support suffice (with
>>the underlying assumption that post-docs employed are not trainees)?
>>
>>2) How does your institution provide health insurance to trainees?
>>Through the student health insurance plan?  Through reimbursement of
>>individual trainee's costs?
>>
>>Thanks much for any information you can provide.
>>Jean
>>
>>Jean M. Murphy
>>Director of Pre-Award Services
>>Wellesley Centers for Women
>>http://www.wcwonline.org
>>E-mail:  xxxxxx@wellesley.edu      Phone:  781-283-2508     Fax:
>>781-283-2504
>>
>>Wellesley College, Cheever House, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA  02481
>
>
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