Re: Federal Salary Cap & PHS398 Form Page 4 Evelyn J. Ford 29 Jul 1999 10:28 EST
Holy Cow! I never even THOUGHT about doing something like this. I wouldn't recommend it either. I'll bet if NIH ever caught up with what they did, they would find some way to take the money back. At 10:01 AM 7/29/99 -0500, you wrote: ... >One other person always elected to show the actual salary and request an >amount based on the actual salary, but once awarded they would only allow >an amount based on the salary cap to be paid to the PI. The remaining >funds in the salary category were then used for other salary expenses or >other costs on the project. Their thought was that it was NIH's >responsibility to "catch" this and make any appropriate/necessary cut in >the budget. I do NOT advocate this approach! > >Val Kettner > > > >At 10:28 AM 7/29/99 -0400, you wrote: >>Does the NIH have any right to information other than that pertaining to >their payment of salary? >> >>Must they know that Dr. X makes $800K? As long as his 25% effort receives >only 0.25 X $125,900 from the Feds AND he really IS working 25%, then what >else is needed? Obviously, the rest of his payment for that time >($800,000-125,900) X 0.25 must be coming from somewhere else. >> >>Am I missing something? >> >>Charlie Hathaway >> >> >>At 08:58 AM 7/29/99 -0500, you wrote: >>> Modular budgets make this question moot for many applications, but when a >>>budget is required, we Show the PI's true base salary Calculate the >>>requested salary on the basis of $125,900 Restate the true salary in the >>>justification and say that we've calculated on the basis of $125,900. NIH >>>has never called us about this. >>> >>> -- >>>Peter J. Dolce, Ph.D. >>>Director, Research Support Services >>>Meharry Medical College >>> Phone 615 327 6703 >>> Fax 615 327 6716 >>> >> >> >>====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >>====================================================================== >> > >====================================================================== >Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via >our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evelyn J. Ford, Manager, Accounting Operations Office of Research Support Services School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 356 Anatomy-Chemistry Building 36th Street and Hamilton Walk Philadelphia PA 19104-6061 voice 215.573.1395 fax 215.573.8802 xxxxxx@mail.med.upenn.edu ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================