Published: April 1, 2021

Updates and revisions have been made to the participant support costs policy and procedure, as well as the related frequently asked questions. See the details below for specific areas that have been revised.

Participant Support Costs 鈥� Policy &聽Procedure

Background Information

  • The policy has shifted to primarily referencing UG rather than NSF guidance. This is a result of UG updating its guidance to incorporate NSF鈥檚 definition, and participant support now becoming more universally available for use across federal sponsors.聽
  • Emphasis: Participants are not paid salaries or wages to provide any deliverable, other than meeting the program requirements (e.g. attendance, testing, etc.).聽
  • The 鈥楶ertinent Regulations鈥� section聽is now combined within the 'Background Information' section.

Procedures

This section now includes UG requirements for:

  • Re-budgeting of participant support costs聽
  • Exemption from F&A overhead on participant support costs
  • Participant support costs in a subaward

There is an updated reference of SPA (Sponsored Projects Accounting) to the newly minted RFS (Research Financial Services). A subsection for 鈥楳onitoring the Project鈥� has been updated to accurately reflect the role of the grant accountant.

Participant Support Costs 鈥� FAQ

We have expanded the number of frequently asked questions鈥攆rom 12 to 27 questions. There are no changes in university or sponsor guidelines. The additional questions were added to provide clarification in response to feedback from a recent PSC workshop hosted by CCO.