Our GA's are considered part-time employees (they work a maximum of 20
hours per week) and as such are not eligible for health insurance.

We don't have this in a written policy or procedure.  If your
institution does not do it as a standard practice, then I don't think
I'd allow it for this purpose either.

Sandy Shriver

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Amy Deborde
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:17 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Health Insurance for Graduate Research Assistants

Good morning,

Our office recently received a budget allocating funds under the "Other
Expense" category to provide health insurance to a Graduate Research
Assistant.

It is my understanding that, per the OMB A-122 circular, health
insurance is
unallowable unless consistently applied throughout the entire
organization.  At
present, this is not a consistent practice.

How would your institution(s) process this request?  Would you deem this
an
allowable cost?   Any policies/procedures you have to guide such
requests?

Thanks in advance,
Amy Deborde.

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