Today's Tip: Participant Support Costs, Part 3 of 3
What expense is not a PCOST? How can I rebudget PCOSTS?
WHAT EXPENSES ARE NOT PARTICIPANT SUPPORT COSTS?
- Honoraria paid to a guest speaker or lecturer
- Expenses for project personnel or collaborators to attend meetings, conferences, or seminars including meetings to discuss a research project’s progress and direction
- Payments to participants in human subject research studies
- Conference support costs such as facility rentals, media equipment rentals, or conference food and snacks
- Payments to the providers of the training
- Payments to other employers to reimburse the employer for the costs related to sending its employee to a training.
HOW CAN I REBUDGET PARTICIPANT SUPPORT COSTS?
- Re-budgeting participant support costs into the general project budget is not allowable without prior approval of the sponsoring agency.
- Sponsoring agency prior approval is also required to move budget out of the participant support costs budget lines for Stipend, Subsistence, Travel and/or Fees and into the participant support cost line item of Other.
Posted: April 1, 2019, 7:28 AM