First,聽the 糖心Vlog官方 Disbursing department has made it a recent priority to get all campus and vendor payments processed and checks printed by today(Friday), including post-fire catch-up, before the Spring Break period next week.聽Included in this week鈥檚 check releases were over ten Hilo Pharmacy stipend payments processed. Good news!

Second, every year around this time the university must go through a process of certifying which recipients of these types of payments (grad student stipends, post-docs and similar cases) are subject to federal withholding taxes which would include non-resident aliens, foreign nationals and individuals who do not provide proper tax identification information.

The assessment includes determination of travel visa status and authorization type, determination of any tax treaty between the US and the country of origin, actual and anticipated length of stay in the US, proper tax identification forms, etc.聽 In the past, recipients have been appreciative of this assessment in order to avoid federal tax withholdings and maximize the monthly receipt of fellowship and stipend proceeds but as you can see, it is a complex and time-consuming process.