NEW AWARD ADDED THIS YEAR: The Graduate School is adding a new Spring Graduate
Student Health Insurance Award (Award B) for the 2009-2010 academic year. This award
will cover Spring Quarter health insurance costs. See GSHI Award B information below
for details.
Please click here to apply.
GSHI Award A:
The Winter/Spring Graduate Student Health Insurance Award for the 2009-2010 academic
year will cover the cost of a single student plan for Winter and Spring quarters.
If you qualify for this award, the credit will be directly applied to your bill.
Since students who have UC Student Health Insurance during Spring automatically
get Summer coverage, this award covers the student for 75% of the year. The application
period for this year begins September 15, 2009 and will end November 15, 2009. All
applications must be made via the on-line process.
2009-2010 Eligibility Criteria for the Winter/Spring GSHI Award (A):
- Must elect and pay for Fall quarter 2009 health insurance
- Must be a Graduate Assistant (teaching, research or administrative) or Fellow, with
a UC payroll status of Graduate Assistant or Fellow receiving stipend payments of
a minimum $1600 through UC payroll within the pay dates (Fall:
10/01/2009-12/31/2009, Winter: 01/01/2010-03/29/2010, and Spring: 03/30/2010-06/30/2010).
- Payroll checks from UC for grad students with a payroll status of Student Worker
compensated hourly will not count toward the $1600 requirement.
- Payment must be made from UC Payroll (refunds from the Bursar are not considered
payments).
- Co-op students paid by a company other than UC during any of these quarters will
not have their pay from their co-op company counted toward the $1600 quarterly pay
requirement.
- Graduate students who receive a fellowship stipend directly from
an outside/third-party sponsor (e.g., Fulbright, Krell, etc.) are required to
send a copy of the award letter and/or official documentation that
clearly state the award period and financial terms of the fellowship (e.g., stipend
amount, tuition scholarship amount, living allowance, etc.) to: GSHI, University
of Cincinnati, PO Box 210635 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0635, OR via UC Mail to ML 0635
- Must maintain university student health insurance coverage during
the entire academic year.
- Graduate students enrolled in less than 6 credit hours in any quarter are
required to complete and submit a Health Insurance Enrollment
Form for that quarter by the deadline in order to maintain student
health insurance.
- For a link to the enrollment form and the submission deadlines, check the website:
http://www.uc.edu/uhs/studenthealthinsurance/default.html
- Must be enrolled for at least one credit hour in each quarter of
the academic year (Fall, Winter and Spring).
Failure to meet all eligibility requirements during the academic
year (Fall, Winter, and Spring) will result in the forfeiture of the graduate
student health insurance award A for both Winter and Spring quarters.
If a graduate student waives the university health insurance for Fall quarter, he/she
will not be eligible for Award A.
GSHI Award B:
NEW AWARD (B): The Spring Graduate Student Health Insurance Award
(B) for the 2009-2010 academic year will cover the cost of a single student plan
for the Spring quarter. If you qualify for this award, the credit will be directly
applied to your bill. Since students who have UC Student Health Insurance during
Spring automatically get Summer coverage, this award covers the student for 50%
of the year. The application period for this year begins January 15, 2010 and will
end February 15, 2010. All applications must be made via the on-line process.
2009-2010 Eligibility Criteria for the Spring GSHI Award (B):
- Must elect and pay for Winter quarter 2010 health insurance
- Must be a Graduate Assistant (teaching, research or administrative) or Fellow, with
a UC payroll status of Graduate Assistant or Fellow receiving stipend payments of
a minimum $1600 through UC payroll within the pay dates (Winter:
01/01/2010-03/29/2010, and Spring: 03/30/2010-06/30/2010).
- Payroll checks from UC for grad students with a payroll status of Student Worker
compensated hourly will not count toward the $1600 requirement.
- Payment must be made from UC Payroll (refunds from the Bursar are not considered
payments).
- Co-op students paid by a company other than UC during either of these two quarters
(Winter or Spring) will not have their pay from their co-op company counted toward
the $1600 quarterly pay requirement.
- Graduate students who receive a fellowship stipend directly from
an outside/third-party sponsor (e.g., Fulbright, Krell, etc.) are required to
send a copy of the award letter and/or official documentation that
clearly state the award period and financial terms of the fellowship (e.g., stipend
amount, tuition scholarship amount, living allowance, etc.) to: GSHI, University
of Cincinnati, PO Box 210635 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0635, OR via UC Mail to ML 0635
- Must maintain university student health insurance coverage during
the Winter and Spring quarters.
- Graduate students enrolled in less than 6 credit hours in either
quarter (Winter or Spring) are required to complete and submit
a Health Insurance Enrollment Form for that quarter by the deadline
in order to maintain student health insurance.
- For a link to the enrollment form and the submission deadlines, check the website:
http://www.uc.edu/uhs/studenthealthinsurance/default.html
- Must be enrolled for at least one credit hour in each of the two quarters
one credit hour in each of the two quarters (Winter and Spring).
Failure to meet all eligibility requirements during the two quarters
(Winter and Spring) will result in the forfeiture of the Spring Graduate Student
Health Insurance Award B for Spring quarter. If a graduate student
waives the university health insurance for Winter quarter, he/she will not be eligible
for Award B.
Other Important Information:
Continuing eligibility will be checked for each student who applies for either of
the awards (A or B) at the conclusion of each quarter. Students who fail to maintain
eligibility will be notified via their UConnect account and the award will be cancelled
in 7 days.
It is the student’s responsibility to check with the program that sponsors their
Graduate Assistantship to make sure the pay dates for the minimum $1600 in pay falls
within the pay date ranges above. These date ranges will be used to pull information
from UC payroll records to verify eligibility.
Please direct any questions to gshi@uc.edu.
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