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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:25:48 EST
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- From: K=A*T <MEC038@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Home ownership among the poor es
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
- 28 Dec 1992 11:31:00 EST from <UNCPJS@UNC.OIT.UNC.EDU>
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- From: "Peter J. Schledorn" <UNCPJS@UNC.OIT.UNC.EDU>
-
- > An additional detail. In the first post that mentioned this, Brett'
- > said that these funds were overhead money. Now, overhead funds are
- > intended as a reimbursement to an institution for costs already incurred
- > that allowed them to perform a service for the government (or, really,
- > any funding agency). I don't know how it's supposed to work with
- > Medicare, but for research grants overhead funds are supposed to meet
- > an institution's cost for keeping up the library, running the personnel
- > and other administrative departments, and so forth. The point is that
- > overhead is supposed to be a reimbursement, not a payment for services.
- > That should considerably loosen the restrictions on how the money is
- > spent. ................................................................
-
- (I say this with extreme caution because I know that Peter knows
- more than regarding this subject.)
-
- ...but how is an overhead negotiated between the government and
- private/public institutions? My understanding is that this is
- negotiated periodically and every institution is "granted" a
- figure which is probabely different than others. Anyway, the way
- it is done is for the institution to demonstrate (based on past
- expenses) the amount of legitimate overhead. Therefore if
- an institution (e.g Stanford charged a sailboat for the president
- as overhead) LISTS (not necessarily CHARGE DIRECTLY) a disallowed
- expense, it would end up with a higher than deserved overhead.
-
- > Peter
-
- --KAT
-