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Payments to Students:  Determining Payment Type

Payment appears to be for travel. Is the student also a university employee being reimbursed for travel as an employee?

Travel as an Employee

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If a student-employee is being reimbursed for travel and the primary beneficiary of the travel is CSUSM, then the individual traveled as an employee. Evidence that travel primarily benefits CSUSM would include:

• The department routinely or regularly has staff travel under similar circumstances (a department regularly sends staff to a certain conference and has previously sent a student-employee to the conference)
• The travel supports a core function of the employing department, or directly relates to a core function of the student-employee’s job
• Other staff in the employing department will benefit from the individual's travel (from knowledge or resources the individual is expected to share with staff upon their return)