SUBJECT:  Academic Student Employee (ASE) Retroactive Range Adjustment

The recent agreement with the University and United Auto Workers (UAW) provided for a 1.5% salary range adjustment (not applicable to Summer Session employees) retroactive to April 1, 2000 for UCSD teaching assistants, associates, readers and tutors (ASEs). The retroactive range adjustment has been applied and separate checks for these payments will be issued July 19. (Note: Regular checks for students paid hourly for the pay period 6/25 - 7/8 will also be issued on the biweekly payday of July 19.)

For the retroactive range adjustment checks, students will be subject to Student FICA based on their Spring 2000 registration units. That is, students registered in at least 6 units Spring quarter will not be subject to deductions. Students (who are U.S. citizens, permanent residents or resident aliens) receiving regular checks on the biweekly payday of July 19 will be subject to Student FICA deductions (Defined Contribution Plan and Medicare) based on their Summer Session registration units. International students who are nonresident aliens and students receiving stipend checks are exempt from Student FICA. Additional information regarding Student FICA is on the OGSR web site. In addition, the Student Academic Rate chart is also located at:
http://www-ogsr.ucsd.edu/finsupport.html

If you have questions regarding this retroactive payment, please contact the department or program where you were employed during the period beginning 4/1/00.

If you have questions about Student FICA, please contact:

Undergraduate students:
            Phyllis Walker, JOP, pfwalker@ucsd.edu, 534-6489
Graduate Students:
            Cyndi Macy, OGSR, cmacy@ucsd.edu, 534-3727

                                                Richard Attiyeh
                                                Dean of Graduate Studies