I would appreciate help with with this question::  With a congressional
earmark, we are running a five-week residential college preparatory
experience for low income, first generation high school students.  They
will spend five weeks in our dorms (housing cost paid by the grant) and
engage in research and other activities with our students and
professors.  Our business office insists that the students' housing cost
is subject to FICA, since the payment for housing (which is transferred
directly to our housing office from a grant account) counts as income.
This seems absurd to me.  What do you think?

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John McCann, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and Sponsored Programs
Provost's Office
Southwestern University
P.O. Box 770
Georgetown, Texas 78627

Phone: 512-863-1233
Fax: 512-863-1262

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