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Frequently Asked Questions - Budget
I am getting errors about the Detailed Budget, but am only submitting a Modular Budget. Why is this happening? Can I still submit my proposals with these errors?
An optional feature for institutional administrators is to display Detailed Budget errors, even if only a Modular Budget is to be submitted. This feature is meant to encourage users to correctly fill out the detailed budget, as this strategy helps minimize errors and allows Cayuse to help check the work submitted.
It is possible to submit with Detailed Budget errors in this situation, as the data will not be presented to Grants.gov.
How do I set the salary cap for future budget periods on my proposal? I know that it increases every year by an unspecified amount, but when I factor that in I get Info messages in Cayuse 424.
The NIH does indeed increase the salary cap every year, usually by a more or less 3% increase to the previous year's cap. In Cayuse 424, you can set higher salary caps for your Key Persons on subsequent budget periods within the proposal. We encourage you to increase each future year by 3%, to account for expected annual cap increases.
Cayuse 424 provides the Info messages as a simple reminder that if you request more than the cap, it might not be fully rewarded in the amount that you request. Requesting over the cap will not affect submission, however, as the agency will automatically adjust the potential reward based on the actual cap they have set.
For more information on NIH salary caps, please check out their website on the topic.
I see little red stars next to various fields on the budget. What do these mean?
A red star next to a field tells you that that particular field has auto-calculated data that is currently being overwritten by manually-entered data. To revert the field to its default auto-calculation, clear out the current data and then click on another field.