Miscellaneous Payments

Miscellaneous Payments are a way of making a one-time payment to Non-UW employees that are US Citizens, Resident Aliens and Nonresident Aliens in Workday. Non-UW individuals with recurring or multiple payments will need to register as a vendor and pay through other Workday modules. 

Visit the Global Operations Support website for more information about paying foreign nationals. 

In Workday:

Helpful Reports in Workday:

  • View Miscellaneous Payee 
  • Miscellaneous Payment Search R1372

Payment Types:                        

Awards/Prizes

Used to pay awards and prizes for Non-UW Employees. Can be used for UW Students only if there is no stipulation on how funds are to be used by the student. Examples of this are awards or recognition for a special achievement, such as winning a judged competition, where the money can be used for any purpose. See Student Prizes and Awards

Recommended - When submitting the request, attach the award and/or prize letter.

Honoraria

An honorarium is an amount of money paid to a professional person for which fees are not legally or traditionally required in recognition of a special service. The individual receiving the honorarium MAY NOT be an employee of the UW. 

What qualifies as an honorarium?

  • A lecture or talk
  • A colloquium
  • An address
  • Grand Round
  • A continuing education presentation or similar activity given to students, staff, faculty and/or the public at large

What does not qualify as an honorarium?

  • Payments to companies or other institutions
  • Personal Services or consulting services such as analyzing, design, planning, facilitating, interpretation, marketing, performing, programming or organization development, research or scientific studies, strategic planning, video production, organizational assessment, quality assurance, editing or reviewing.

Recommended - When submitting the request, attach documentation (i.e. letter of invite) justifying the honorarium

Insurance

Insurance

Non-Employee Travel Reimbursement
Non-UW Scholarships

Used to pay scholarships to Non-UW students or Non-UW employees, such as a department awarding a scholarship to a student attending a different school or paying a Non-UW individual for participating in a training or conference.

Refund

Refund 

Reimbursement

Examples of reimbursable expenses include: conference fees, membership dues, non-travel related meals supplies, and supplies

What are not reimbursable expenses: personal services, UW tuition, housing, travel (see non-employee travel reimbursement category)

See other reimbursement information on the Reimbursements page

Research Subjects

Research projects involving human subjects often offer a small payment to the research subjects for purposes of recruitment or encouragement for participation in the project. 

Royalties

A royalty is a payment to the legal owner of a property, patent or copyrighted work for the right to use the intellectual or physical assets owned by the licensor. Royalties do not include services.

What qualifies as a royalty payment?

  • Copyright or patent payments
  • Rights to use/license fees to photographers for use of their photo
  • Permission fees
  • Usage fees
Service

Used to pay personal services (excluding Honoraria) such as consulting, design, analyzing, editing/reviewing, strategic planning, and teaching for non-UW courses under the Direct Buy Limit. 

  • Payment of personal services to individuals is subject to the Direct Buy Limit and current purchasing policies.
  • Attach a copy of the individual's invoice.
  • The spend category must be 1099 reportable. Please refer to the job aid for a list of spend categories that are allowable to use with Miscellaneous Payments. 
Settlement

Settlement

Stipend

A payment that is made to an individual to support a training or learning experience. For a payment to be considered a Stipend, certain criteria must be met.

Stipends are not considered wages if they are payment for a training or learning experience and not a payment for services rendered.

All Stipend requests must include documentation describing the proposed Stipend payment, describing the training program for which the Stipend is paid and sufficient to establish that the Stipend payment is a non-compensatory payment to defray living expenses during the period of a UW program.  

UW Student Stipends should be paid through the Student Database (SDB) and will be reported at year end on a 1098-T tax form.

  • UW employees' Stipends must be paid through UW Payroll
  • See this ISC page for more information. 
  • Recommended - When submitting the request, attach documentation justifying the stipend.
Workstudy/Grant 

Intended for Student Fiscal Services (SFS)

What is Not Allowed

Payment Type

Instead Use

Individuals who have an active vendor numberRequisition or Supplier Invoice Request
Service payment over the Direct Buy LimitRequisition
Payment for goods (i.e. artwork or equipment)Requisition or Supplier Invoice Request
Payment to a company or groupRequisition or Supplier Invoice Request
Current Employees (Exception: Royalties & NIH Childcare Allowance)Payroll or Expense Report (Exception: Royalties and Contingent Worker, and NIH Childcare Allowance) More information: Independent Contractor Policy
Student EmployeesWorkday
Former EmployeesWill require review for appropriate classification. Contact TaxOfc@uw.edu. 
Miscellaneous Payee Best Practices
  • When entering a Miscellaneous Payee in Workday, please make sure the Miscellaneous Payee Category is either:
    • Domestic Payee (a non-UW student, non-UW employee who is a U.S. Citizen or Resident Alien)
    • Foreign National Payee (a non-UW student, non-UW employee who is a Non-Resident Alien)
    • Student (a UW student who is a U.S. Citizen or Resident Alien)
    • Student-Foreign (a UW student who is a Non-Resident Alien)
  • If the spend category used requires a Social Security Number (SSN), please make sure that only 9 digits are entered. 
    • The payee's SSN is only required if the spend category is 1099 reportable and the payee will receive $600 or more of reportable income in the calendar year.
    • Please do not enter any spaces or dashes in the SSN.
  • If the payee does not have an SSN or an SSN is not required, please enter 9 zeros in the SSN field.
  • Please do not include any special characters (i.e.: period, comma) in the payee's name when entering their information. 
Miscellaneous Payments Best Practices
  • We recommend only processing payments once the activity has taken place. If you would like to process a payment request in advance, you may only do so up to two weeks before the activity date and the Payment Type must be a check sent through Campus Mail. 
  • Payment Type:
    • Checks:
      • To send a check via campus mail, please make sure "Campus Mail" is selected under the Handling Code and please enter the campus box number under Miscellaneous Field 7.
      • If the check needs to be picked up at Mailing Services reception desk, use the "Hold-pickup" Handling Code.
      • To send a check directly to the payee, please make sure the payee's address is entered under their Contact Information on Workday.
    • ACH should only be selected for domestic transactions (banks located within the United States)
    • Wire is recommended only for foreign transactions (banks located outside the United States)
  • If an individual already has an active vendor number, use Supplier Invoice Request to make the payment.
  • If a service invoice is over the Direct Buy Limit, do not split the invoice into two different payments.
Other Considerations

If a check payment for an MP needs to be canceled:

Please visit the Check Cancelation page for guidance.

If the payment is $10,000 or more:

Miscellaneous Payments are not processed for service payments over the Direct Buy Limit of 10K. If a payment is over the Direct Buy Limit, please register the individual as a supplier and submit as a requisition.

If the payee is a foreign national:

1099 Misc Tax Reporting Process:

As of January 2013, the University of Washington will be reporting all payments made to 1099 reportable suppliers (including travel expenses) on Form 1099 MISC. More information about this change can be found on the Tax Office website.

 

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