The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants would cost 10 red states more than $1 billion.

The cost of labor is the total of all employee wages plus the cost of benefits and payroll taxes paid by an employer.

A memo released late on Friday announced that the National Institutes of Health would limit indirect-cost funding to 15 percent, approximately half of the average rate it previously offered.

Since the 1940s, payments for indirect costs have risen from 8 percent to more than 60 percent.

The move, announced Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts its funding for “indirect” costs related to research.

A federal judge on June 20 rejected the National Science Foundation’s move to cap indirect costs related to its research grants at 15%, following similar decisions by other courts.

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If the sponsor does not have a policy limiting Indirect Costs (IDC/F&A) and the Principal Investigator (PI) requests reduced IDC for a budget, CU Boulder requires an Indirect Cost Reduction or Waiver ...

The new rate of indirect cost reimbursement will be applied to any newly funded grants and retroactively to all existing grants starting with the issuance of this notice.

Thirteen research universities have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop NSF from capping the indirect research costs it pays to universities on grants from the agency.

To the Case Western Reserve community: Late Friday afternoon, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a notice titled “Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect ...

The NIH said it will cap the indirect cost rate, which is for infrastructure costs such as facilities, maintenance, and security, at 15%.