Fee Remission Notes

This section is dedicated to miscellaneous items related to fee remission.

Unallowable Costs on Grants

Rarely, tuition and health insurance (fee remission) are defined as “unallowable expenses” on grants.

Fee remission is a benefit of employment so students employed in academic appointments on the grant are still eligible for fee remission. In this situation, the hiring department is responsible for supplying an alternate salary account-fund to pay the fee remission costs.

In order for an alternate account-fund to pay the fee remission costs, an expense redirect has to be set up in the UC Path system. Graduate Division can assist the hiring department in the redirect set up process.

Graduate Division will work directly with the campus UC Path Center liaison to set up the redirect on the hiring department’s behalf.

Please note that the UC Path Center requires up to 60 days to finalize an expense redirect of this sort. It is important that hiring departments notify Graduate Division as soon as they are aware a student will be hired on a grant where fee remission is an unallowable expense so the UC Path redirect can be initiated as soon as possible to avoid fee remission costs being charged to the incorrect account.

To initiate a redirect or for any questions, please contact Rudy Reyes (Rudy.Reyes@graddiv.ucsb.edu).